| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Glinda of Oz by L. Frank Baum: Dorothy, for one should only imagine nice things, and
we do not know that the Skeezers and Flatheads are
wicked people or my enemies. Perhaps they would be good
and listen to reason."
"Dorothy is right, your Majesty," asserted the
Sorceress. "It is true we know nothing of these faraway
subjects, except that they intend to fight one another,
and have a certain amount of magic power at their
command. Such folks do not like to submit to
interference and they are more likely to resent your
coming among them than to receive you kindly and
Glinda of Oz |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton: coming out, I met a man with a pleasant face, something like Mr.
Hawkins, and he stopped and asked me what the trouble was. I told
him if he'd give me five dollars I'd have money enough to buy a
ticket back to New York, and he took a good look at me and said,
well, if that was what I wanted he'd go straight to the station
with me and give me the five dollars there. So he did--and he
bought the ticket, and put me in the cars."
Evelina sank back, her face a sallow wedge in the white cleft
of the pillow. Ann Eliza leaned over her, and for a long time they
held each other without speaking.
They were still clasped in this dumb embrace when there was a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas: present moment to humiliate men of family."
"And by whom?"
"By the king himself. He surrounds himself with people who
cannot show four quarterings."
"Nonsense," said De Guiche, "where could you possibly have
seen that, De Wardes?"
"One example will suffice," he returned, directing his look
fully upon Raoul.
"State it then."
"Do you know who has just been nominated captain-general of
the musketeers? -- an appointment more valuable than a
Ten Years Later |
