| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Emerald City of Oz by L. Frank Baum: drank heartily of the Water of Oblivion.
This rude act of his General made the Nome King so angry that for a
moment he forgot he was thirsty and rose to his feet to glare upon the
group of terrible warriors he had brought here to assist him. He saw
Ozma and her people, too, and yelled out:
"Why don't you capture them? Why don't you conquer Oz, you idiots?
Why do you stand there like a lot of dummies?"
But the great warriors had become like little children. They had
forgotten all their enmity against Ozma and against Oz. They had even
forgotten who they themselves were, or why they were in this strange
and beautiful country. As for the Nome King, they did not recognize
The Emerald City 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: rain, and you see it from the Downs.'
'Very likely. Our villa's on the south edge of the Island,
by the Broken Cliffs. Most of it is three hundred years
old, but the cow-stables, where our first ancestor lived,
must be a hundred years older. Oh, quite that, because
the founder of our family had his land given him by
Agricola at the Settlement. It's not a bad little place for its
size. In springtime violets grow down to the very beach.
I've gathered sea-weeds for myself and violets for my
Mother many a time with our old nurse.'
'Was your nurse a - a Romaness too?'
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: leave you two gentlemen to sail in company on board the Warwick
and the Vengeur."
She rose to her feet and signed to Maxime to follow her, mirth
and mischief in her whole attitude, and the two went in the
direction of the boudoir. The morganatic couple (to use a
convenient German expression which has no exact equivalent) had
reached the door, when the Count interrupted himself in his talk
with Eugene.
"Anastasie!" he cried pettishly, "just stay a moment, dear; you
know very well that----"
"I am coming back in a minute," she interrupted; "I have a
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