| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson: exaggerate," he writes. And again, hinting at the
explanation: "Who that has heard a strain of music feared
lest he should speak extravagantly any more for ever?" And
yet once more, in his essay on Carlyle, and this time with
his meaning well in hand: "No truth, we think, was ever
expressed but with this sort of emphasis, that for the time
there seemed to be no other." Thus Thoreau was an
exaggerative and a parabolical writer, not because he loved
the literature of the East, but from a desire that people
should understand and realise what he was writing. He was
near the truth upon the general question; but in his own
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Lost Princess of Oz by L. Frank Baum: Little Pink Bear?"
"At home, Your Majesty," was the reply.
"Fetch him here," commanded the King.
Several of the bears waddled over to one of the trees and pulled
from its hollow a tiny pink bear, smaller than any of the others.
A big, white bear carried the pink one in his arms and set it down
beside the King, arranging the joints of its legs so that it would stand upright.
This Pink Bear seemed lifeless until the King turned a crank which
protruded from its side, when the little creature turned its head
stiffly from side to side and said in a small, shrill voice, "Hurrah
for the King of Bear Center!"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Enchanted Island of Yew by L. Frank Baum: laughter and holding his sides to keep from getting a stitch in them,
while Prince Marvel stood quietly attentive and smiling with genuine
amusement. For he alone understood what had happened to separate the
twin High Ki.
The girls did not seem to know how to act under their altered
conditions. After a time one of them said:
"We will leave our dispute to be settled by the Ki and the Ki-Ki."
"Very well," agreed the other.
"Then I say your half is right," declared the Ki-Ki, both their right
forefingers pointing to the maiden who had condemned the strangers
to death.
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