| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells: right over Hunstanton already. They came in by the easy landmark
of the Wash.
"It will interest him," said Eleanor, who knew her father
better.
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One warm and still and sunny afternoon the bishop found himself
looking out upon the waters of the Wash. He sat where the highest
pebble layers of the beach reached up to a little cliff of sandy
earth perhaps a foot high, and he looked upon sands and sea and
sky and saw that they were beautiful.
He was a little black-gaitered object in a scene of the most
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: associations, and handle them lightly when we have found them.
Sometimes an old print comes to our aid; I have seen many a spot lit
up at once with picturesque imaginations, by a reminiscence of
Callot, or Sadeler, or Paul Brill. Dick Turpin has been my lay
figure for many an English lane. And I suppose the Trossachs would
hardly be the Trossachs for most tourists if a man of admirable
romantic instinct had not peopled it for them with harmonious
figures, and brought them thither with minds rightly prepared for the
impression. There is half the battle in this preparation. For
instance: I have rarely been able to visit, in the proper spirit,
the wild and inhospitable places of our own Highlands. I am happier
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Magic of Oz by L. Frank Baum: Red Wagon, and if there is danger to us from other beasts, these two
friendly champions will protect us from all harm."
"That's a splendid idea!" exclaimed Dorothy. "Let's go now and ask
the Hungry Tiger and the Cowardly Lion if they will help us. Shall we
ask Ozma if we can go?"
"I think not," said the Wizard, getting his hat and his black bag of
magic tools. "This is to be a surprise for her birthday, and so she
mustn't know where we're going. We'll just leave word, in case Ozma
inquires for us, that we'll be back in a few days."
7. The Forest of Gugu
In the central western part of the Gillikin Country is a great
The Magic of Oz |
