| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz by L. Frank Baum: Australia, haven't you?"
"Yes; with Uncle Henry," she answered. "We got to San Francisco a
week ago, and Uncle Henry went right on to Hugson's Ranch for a visit
while I stayed a few days in the city with some friends we had met."
"How long will you be with us?" he asked.
"Only a day. Tomorrow Uncle Henry and I must start back for Kansas.
We've been away for a long time, you know, and so we're anxious to get
home again."
The boy flicked the big, boney horse with his whip and looked
thoughtful. Then he started to say something to his little companion,
but before he could speak the buggy began to sway dangerously from side
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling: The other seals laughed at this, and the young seal began
twisting his head from side to side. He had just married that
year, and was making a great fuss about it.
"I've no nursery to fight for," said Kotick. "I only want to
show you all a place where you will be safe. What's the use of
fighting?"
"Oh, if you're trying to back out, of course I've no more to
say," said the young seal with an ugly chuckle.
"Will you come with me if I win?" said Kotick. And a green
light came into his eye, for he was very angry at having to fight
at all.
The Jungle Book |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton: loftily vaulted, and frescoed with a seventeenth-century Triumph
of Scipio or Alexander--martial figures following Wyant with the
filmed melancholy gaze of shades in limbo. At the end of this
apartment he was admitted to a smaller room, with the same
atmosphere of mortal cold, but showing more obvious signs of
occupancy. The walls were covered with tapestry which had faded
to the gray-brown tints of decaying vegetation, so that the young
man felt as though he were entering a sunless autumn wood.
Against these hangings stood a few tall cabinets on heavy gilt
feet, and at a table in the window three persons were seated: an
elderly lady who was warming her hands over a brazier, a girl
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