| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Bab:A Sub-Deb, Mary Roberts Rinehart by Mary Roberts Rinehart: decieved me, he has paid for it, and did until he was rescued at
ten o'clock tonight.
I have been given a sleeping medacine, and until it takes affect I
shall write out the tradgedy of this day, omiting nothing. The
trained nurse is asleep on a cot, and her cap is hanging on the
foot of the bed.
I have tried it on, dear Dairy, and it is very becoming. If they
insist on Switzerland I think I shall run away and be a trained
nurse. It is easy work, although sleeping on a cot is not always
comfortible. But at least a trained nurse leads her own Life and is
not bully-ed by her Familey. And more, she does good constantly.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tik-Tok of Oz by L. Frank Baum: chance to escape is to leave here instantly."
This startled little Betsy, but the Shaggy Man
merely waved the Magnet toward the Gardener, who,
seeing it, rushed forward and threw himself at
Shaggy's feet, murmuring in honeyed words:
"Oh, you lovely, lovely man! How fond I am of
you! Every shag and bobtail that decorates you is
dear to me--all I have is yours! But for goodness'
sake get out of here before you die the death."
"I'm not going to die," declared Shaggy Man.
"You must. It's the Law," exclaimed the
Tik-Tok of Oz |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: haply ye may fear! who made the earth for you a bed and the heaven a
dome; and sent down from heaven water, and brought forth therewith
fruits as a sustenance for you; so make no peers for God, the while ye
know!
And if ye are in doubt of what we have revealed unto our servant,
then bring a chapter like it, and call your witnesses other than God
if ye tell truth. But if ye do it not, and ye shall surely do it
not, then fear the fire whose fuel is men and stones, prepared for
misbelievers. But bear the glad tidings to those who believe and
work righteousness, that for them are gardens beneath which rivers
flow; whenever they are provided with fruit therefrom they say,
The Koran |
