| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum: to pass.
Of course they at once halted, a safe distance away from the terrible
iron mallet. The magic carpet would do them no good in this case, for
it was only meant to protect them from any dangers upon the ground
beneath their feet, and not from dangers that appeared in the air
above them.
"Wow!" said the Cowardly Lion, with a shudder. "It makes me
dreadfully nervous to see that big hammer pounding so near my head.
One blow would crush me into a door-mat."
"The ir-on gi-ant is a fine fel-low," said Tiktok, "and works as
stead-i-ly as a clock. He was made for the Nome King by Smith &
Ozma of Oz |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: sexes of the same species to each other, or to fit the males and females to
different habits of life, or the males to struggle with other males for the
possession of the females.
Finally, then, I conclude that the greater variability of specific
characters, or those which distinguish species from species, than of
generic characters, or those which the species possess in common;--that the
frequent extreme variability of any part which is developed in a species in
an extraordinary manner in comparison with the same part in its congeners;
and the not great degree of variability in a part, however extraordinarily
it may be developed, if it be common to a whole group of species;--that the
great variability of secondary sexual characters, and the great amount of
On the Origin of Species |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The House of Dust by Conrad Aiken: She turned her face away.
Nearer she moved to a crouching darkness
With every step and day.
Death, who at first had thought of her only an instant,
At a great distance, across the night,
Smiled from a window upon her, and followed her slowly
From purple light to light.
Once, in her dreams, he spoke out clearly, crying,
'I am the murderer, death.
I am the lover who keeps his appointment
At the doors of breath!'
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