| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley: savage's fancy that there cannot be such a thing as a locomotive,
because he never saw one running wild in the forest. Wise men know
that their business is to examine what is, and not to settle what
is not. They know that there are elephants; they know that there
have been flying dragons; and the wiser they are, the less inclined
they will be to say positively that there are no water-babies.
No water-babies, indeed? Why, wise men of old said that everything
on earth had its double in the water; and you may see that that is,
if not quite true, still quite as true as most other theories which
you are likely to hear for many a day. There are land-babies -
then why not water-babies? ARE THERE NOT WATER-RATS, WATER-FLIES,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Rinkitink In Oz by L. Frank Baum: about it."
All this time the boy Prince was rowing. the boat. He
was not in the least tired, for the oars he held seemed
to move of their own accord. He paid little heed to the
conversation of Rinkitink and the goat, but busied his
thoughts with plans of what he should do when he
reached the islands of Regos and Coregos and confronted
his enemies. When the others finally became silent,
Inga inquired.
"Can you fight, King Rinkitink?"
"I have never tried," was the answer. "In time of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King Lear by William Shakespeare: Lear. Come, good Athenian.
Glou. No words, no words! hush.
Edg. Child Rowland to the dark tower came;
His word was still
Fie, foh, and fum!
I smell the blood of a British man.
Exeunt.
Scene V.
Gloucester's Castle.
Enter Cornwall and Edmund.
Corn. I will have my revenge ere I depart his house.
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