| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Rinkitink In Oz by L. Frank Baum: goat's head is harder than a battering-ram."
"Well," mused the Queen, "there is surely some way to
conquer that slight boy. If you are afraid to undertake
the job, I shall go myself. By some stratagem I shall
manage to make him my prisoner. He will not dare to
defy a Queen, and no magic can stand against a woman's
cunning."
"Go ahead, if you like," replied the King, with an
evil grin, "and if you are hung up by the thumbs or
cast into a dungeon, it will serve you right for
thinking you can succeed where a skilled warrior dares
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from In the South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson: 'Donat the much-handed' - acting Vice-Resident, present ruler of
the archipelago, by far the man of chief importance on the scene,
but known besides for one of an unshakable good temper; and a
certain comely, strapping young Paumotuan woman, the comeliest on
the isle, not (let us hope) the bravest or the most polite. Of a
sudden, ere yet the grave silence of the funeral was broken, she
made a leap at the Resident, with pointed finger, shrieked a few
words, and fell back again with a laughter, not a natural mirth.
'What did she say to you?' I asked. 'She did not speak to ME,'
said Donat, a shade perturbed; 'she spoke to the ghost of the dead
man.' And the purport of her speech was this: 'See there! Donat
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Witch, et. al by Anton Chekhov: anyone, "and we don't want one."
"What next; the bridge is a government business."
"We don't want it."
"Your opinion is not asked. What is it to you?"
" 'Your opinion is not asked,' " Volodka mimicked hi m. "We don't
want to drive anywhere; what do we want with a bridge? If we have
to, we can cross by the boat."
Someone from the yard outside knocked at the window so violently
that it seemed to shake the whole hut.
"Is Volodka at home?" he heard the voice of the younger Lytchkov.
"Volodka, come out, come along."
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