| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Scarecrow of Oz by L. Frank Baum: painted had become so wrinkled that the old jolly
expression of their stuffed friend's features was
entirely gone. But he could still speak, and when Trot
bent down her ear she heard him say:
"Get me out of here as soon as you can."
That seemed a wise thing to do, so Cap'n Bill lifted
his head and shoulders, and Trot and Button-Bright each
took a leg; among them they partly carried and partly
dragged the damp Scarecrow out of the Ruby Cavern, along
the tunnel, and up the flight of rock steps. It was
somewhat difficult to get him past the edge of the
The Scarecrow of Oz |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from 'Twixt Land & Sea by Joseph Conrad: them on his way to make his verbal report?
No; the minds on the "front" were not competent for that sort of
investigation, but many hands there - brown hands, yellow hands,
white hands - were raised to shade the eyes gazing out to sea. The
rumour spread quickly. Chinese shopkeepers came to their doors,
more than one white merchant, even, rose from his desk to go to the
window. After all, a ship on Tamissa was not an everyday
occurrence. And presently the rumour took a more definite shape.
An English trader - detained on suspicion at sea by the Neptun -
Heemskirk was towing him in to test a case, and by some strange
accident -
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Myths and Myth-Makers by John Fiske: amongst the herbs a poisonous snake."[4] Now this story of the
Wali is as manifestly identical with the legend of Gellert as
the English word FATHER is with the Latin pater; but as no one
would maintain that the word father is in any sense derived
from pater, so it would be impossible to represent either the
Welsh or the Egyptian legend as a copy of the other. Obviously
the conclusion is forced upon us that the stories, like the
words, are related collaterally, having descended from a
common ancestral legend, or having been suggested by one and
the same primeval idea.
[3] According to Mr. Isaac Taylor, the name is really derived
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