| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum: began to wonder where she should pass the night, she came to a
house rather larger than the rest. On the green lawn before it
many men and women were dancing. Five little fiddlers played as
loudly as possible, and the people were laughing and singing,
while a big table near by was loaded with delicious fruits and
nuts, pies and cakes, and many other good things to eat.
The people greeted Dorothy kindly, and invited her to supper and
to pass the night with them; for this was the home of one of the
richest Munchkins in the land, and his friends were gathered with
him to celebrate their freedom from the bondage of the Wicked Witch.
Dorothy ate a hearty supper and was waited upon by the rich
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: the girl whom he had succoured. I will call my mother Lucy.
Her family name I am not at liberty to mention; it is one you
would know well. By what series of undeserved calamities
this innocent flower of maidenhood, lovely, refined by
education, ennobled by the finest taste, was thus cast among
the horrors of a Mormon caravan, I must not stay to tell you.
Let it suffice, that even in these untoward circumstances,
she found a heart worthy of her own. The ardour of
attachment which united my father and mother was perhaps
partly due to the strange manner of their meeting; it knew,
at least, no bounds either divine or human; my father, for
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Court Life in China by Isaac Taylor Headland: watched this procession on its way to the execution grounds told
me that,--
"The scene was impossible to describe. These five young
reformers," after expressing the sentiments quoted above from Dr.
Smith, "reviled the Empress Dowager and the conservatives in the
most blood-curdling manner."
I have already spoken of Wang Chao the secretary of the Board of
Rites who presented the memorial which caused the dismissal of
the six officials of that body, and, indirectly, the fall of the
Emperor. Some time before writing this petition he called at our
home requesting Mrs. Headland to go and see his mother who was
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