| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: his own language, swore we should be tied back to back and thrown
into the sea. I spoken Dutch tolerably well; I told him who we
were, and begged him, in consideration of our being Christians
and Protestants, of neighbouring countries in strict alliance,
that he would move the captains to take some pity on us. This
inflamed his rage; he repeated his threatenings, and turning to
his companions, spoke with great vehemence in the Japanese
language, as I suppose, often using the word CHRISTIANOS.
The largest of the two pirate ships was commanded by a Japanese
captain, who spoke a little Dutch, but very imperfectly. He came
up to me, and after several questions, which I answered in great
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart: felt around for it. The box was empty--the cuff-link had
disappeared!
CHAPTER V
GERTRUDE'S ENGAGEMENT
At ten o'clock the Casanova hack brought up three men. They
introduced themselves as the coroner of the county and two
detectives from the city. The coroner led the way at once to the
locked wing, and with the aid of one of the detectives examined
the rooms and the body. The other detective, after a short
scrutiny of the dead man, busied himself with the outside of the
house. It was only after they had got a fair idea of things as
The Circular Staircase |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum: "I'm glad of that!" she exclaimed. "It makes me quite happy to be so
near my old friends. The scarecrow I told you of, Billina, is the
King of the Land of Oz."
"Par-don me. He is not the king now," said Tiktok.
"He was when I left there," declared Dorothy.
"I know," said Tiktok, "but there was a rev-o-lu-tion in the Land of
Oz, and the Scare-crow was de-posed by a sol-dier wo-man named
Gen-er-al Jin-jur. And then Jin-jur was de-posed by a lit-tle girl
named Oz-ma, who was the right-ful heir to the throne and now rules
the land un-der the ti-tle of Oz-ma of Oz."
"That is news to me," said Dorothy, thoughtfully. "But I s'pose
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