| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tin Woodman of Oz by L. Frank Baum: "It will save me from rusting," said the Tin Soldier.
"It will enable me to remain highly polished," said
the Tin Woodman.
"Oh, as for that, I myself prefer not to get my
pretty clothes wet," laughed the Rainbow's daughter.
"But while we wait I will bid you all adieu. I must
also thank you for saving me from that dreadful
Giantess, Mrs. Yoop. You have been good and patient
comrades and I have enjoyed our adventures together,
but I am never so happy as when on my dear Rainbow."
"Will your father scold you for getting left on the
The Tin Woodman of Oz |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Pocket Diary Found in the Snow by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: had better luck. It was not possible to find the goal towards
which the wagon had taken its prisoner - if prisoner she was - as
soon as they had hoped. Perhaps the search must be made in the
direction from which she had been brought.
Muller turned back towards the city again. He walked more quickly
now, but his eyes took in everything to the right and to the left
of his path. Near the place where the street divided a bush waved
its bare twigs in the wind. The snow which had settled upon it
early in the day had been blown away by the freshening wind, and
just as Muller neared the bush he saw something white fluttering
from one twig. It was a handkerchief, which had probably hung
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Ivanhoe by Walter Scott: of it---I say, come on, we must collect all our forces,
and few enough we shall have, if we are to storm
the Castle of Reginald Front-de-Buf.''
``What! is it Front-de-Buf,'' said the Black
Knight, ``who has stopt on the king's highway the
king's liege subjects?---Is he turned thief and oppressor?''
``Oppressor he ever was,'' said Locksley.
``And for thief,'' said the priest, ``I doubt if
ever he were even half so honest a man as many a
thief of my acquaintance.''
``Move on, priest, and be silent,'' said the yeoman;
Ivanhoe |
