| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz by L. Frank Baum: of the Sorcerer; but when they started toward the mountain the
vegetable people allowed them to proceed without interference, yet
followed in a crowd behind them so that they could not go back again.
Before long they neared the Black Pit, where a busy swarm of
Mangaboos, headed by their Princess, was engaged in piling up glass
rocks before the entrance.
"Stop, I command you!" cried the Wizard, in an angry tone, and at once
began pulling down the rocks to liberate Jim and the piglets. Instead
of opposing him in this they stood back in silence until he had made a
good-sized hole in the barrier, when by order of the Princess they all
sprang forward and thrust out their sharp thorns.
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Glinda of Oz by L. Frank Baum: "We thank you, Reera."
Then they bowed to the Skeezer and said:
"We thank you, Ervic."
"Very good!" cried the Yookoohoo, examining her work
with critical approval. "You are much better and more
interesting than fishes, and this ungracious Skeezer
would scarcely allow me to do the transformations. You
surely have nothing to thank him for. But now let us
dine in honor of the occasion."
She clapped her hands together and again a table
loaded with food appeared in the cottage. It was a
Glinda of Oz |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Enemies of Books by William Blades: gives "Aglossa pinguinalis" as the real name, and Mrs. Gatty,
in her Parables, christens it "Hypothenemus cruditus."
The, Rev. F. T. Havergal, who many years ago had much trouble with bookworms
in the Cathedral Library of Hereford, says they are a kind of death-watch,
with a "hard outer skin, and are dark brown," another sort "having white
bodies with brown spots on their heads." Mr. Holme, in "Notes and Queries"
for 1870, states that the "Anobium paniceum" has done considerable injury
to the Arabic manuscripts brought from Cairo, by Burckhardt, and now in
the University Library, Cambridge. Other writers say "Acarus eruditus"
or "Anobium pertinax" are the correct scientific names.
Personally, I have come across but few specimens; nevertheless, from what
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