| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Road to Oz by L. Frank Baum: nothing at all."
"Who are they?" inquired the shaggy man.
"One is a scarecrow who's stuffed with straw, and the other a woodman
made out of tin. They haven't any appetites inside of 'em, you see;
so they never eat anything at all."
"Are they alive?" asked Button-Bright.
"Oh yes," replied Dorothy; "and they're very clever and very nice,
too. If we get to Oz I'll introduce them to you."
"Do you really expect to get to Oz?" inquired the shaggy man, taking
a drink of cold tea.
"I don't know just what to 'spect," answered the child, seriously; "but
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Weir of Hermiston by Robert Louis Stevenson: the child an obscure but ineradicable sense of something wrong.
Mrs. Weir's philosophy of life was summed in one expression -
tenderness. In her view of the universe, which was all lighted up with
a glow out of the doors of hell, good people must walk there in a kind
of ecstasy of tenderness. The beasts and plants had no souls; they were
here but for a day, and let their day pass gently! And as for the
immortal men, on what black, downward path were many of them wending,
and to what a horror of an immortality! "Are not two sparrows,"
"Whosoever shall smite thee," "God sendeth His rain," "Judge not, that
ye be not judged" - these texts made her body of divinity; she put them
on in the morning with her clothes and lay down to sleep with them at
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: upon the ring, and cried in a loud voice, "By the red Aldebaran,
I command thee to come!"
Instantly the Genie stood before him--big, black, ugly, and grim.
"What are my lord's commands?" said he.
"I command thee," said Abdallah the fagot-maker, who was not half
so frightened at the sight of the monster this time as he had
been before--"I command thee to help me out of this woods."
Hardly were the words out of his mouth when the Genie snatched
Abdallah up, and, flying swifter than the lightning, set him down
in the middle of the highway on the outskirts of the forest
before he had fairly caught his breath.
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