| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum: "I'll prob'ly get lots of rest tomorrow, when I become an orn'ment,"
said Dorothy, sleepily. But she lay down upon her couch, nevertheless,
and in spite of all her worries was soon in the land of dreams.
14. Dorothy Tries to be Brave
Meantime the Chief Steward had returned to the throne room, where he
said to the King:
"You are a fool to waste so much time upon these people."
"What!" cried his Majesty, in so enraged a voice that it awoke Billina,
who was asleep under his throne. "How dare you call me a fool?"
"Because I like to speak the truth," said the Steward. "Why didn't
you enchant them all at once, instead of allowing them to go one by
Ozma of Oz |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Puck of Pook's Hill by Rudyard Kipling: in a willow-tot at the foot of the glebe, and, come night,
stole a-tiptoe uphill to Barnabas' church again. A thick
mist, and a moon striking through.
'I had no sooner locked the tower-door behind us than
over goes Sebastian full length in the dark.
"'Pest!" he says. "Step high and feel low, Hal. I've
stumbled over guns before."
'I groped, and one by one - the tower was pitchy dark -
I counted the lither barrels of twenty serpentines laid out
on pease straw. No conceal at all!
"'There's two demi-cannon my end," says Sebastian,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: if we please, we drown them, and there is none for them to appeal
to; nor are they rescued, save by mercy from us, as a provision for
a season.
And when it is said to them, 'Fear what is before you and what is
behind you, haply ye may obtain mercy and thou bringest them not any
one of the signs of their Lord, but they turn away therefrom; and when
it is said to them, 'Expend in alms of what God has bestowed upon
you,' those who misbelieve say to those who believe, 'Shall we feed
him whom, if God pleased, He would feed? ye are only in an obvious
error.'
They say, 'When shall this promise come to pass, if ye do tell the
The Koran |
