| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: in the countenances of those whose persons are deformed. His
body, thick and square, like that of a man of middle size, was
mounted upon two large feet; but nature seemed to have forgotten
the legs and the thighs, or they were so very short as to be
hidden by the dress which he wore. His arms were long and
brawny, furnished with two muscular hands, and, where uncovered
in the eagerness of his labour, were shagged with coarse black
hair. It seemed as if nature had originally intended the
separate parts of his body to be the members of a giant, but had
afterwards capriciously assigned them to the person of a dwarf,
so ill did the length of his arms and the iron strength of his
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Gambara by Honore de Balzac: she saw, without wondering by what series of disasters he had sunk to
keep a miserable shop for secondhand food. She went in and sat down,
for she had come from Fontainebleau. She had walked fourteen leagues
that day, after begging her bread from Turin to Paris.
She frightened that terrible trio! Of all her wondrous beauty nothing
remained but her fine eyes, dimmed and sunken. The only thing faithful
to her was misfortune.
She was welcomed by the skilled old instrument mender, who greeted her
with unspeakable joy.
"Why, here you are, my poor Marianna!" said he, warmly. "During your
absence they sold up my instrument and my operas."
Gambara |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tin Woodman of Oz by L. Frank Baum: came forward and sat herself down just in front of the
Blue Rabbit, her many-hued draperies giving her the
appearance of some beautiful flower. The rabbit didn't
back away an inch. Instead, he gazed at the Rainbow's
Daughter admiringly.
"Does your burrow go underneath this Wall of Air?"
asked Polychrome.
"To be sure," answered the Blue Rabbit; "I dug it
that way so I could roam in these broad fields, by
going out one way, or eat the cabbages in Nimmie Amee's
garden by leaving my burrow at the other end. I don't
The Tin Woodman of Oz |
