| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum: "I can try, I suppose," said Billina. "And, if I fail, you will have
another ornament."
"A pretty ornament you'd make, wouldn't you?" growled the King. "But
you shall have your way. It will properly punish you for daring to
lay an egg in my presence. After the Scarecrow is enchanted you shall
follow him into the palace. But how will you touch the objects?"
"With my claws," said the hen; "and I can speak the word 'Ev' as
plainly as anyone. Also I must have the right to guess the
enchantments of my friends, and to release them if I succeed."
"Very well," said the King. "You have my promise."
"Then," said Billina to the Scarecrow, "you may get the egg."
Ozma of Oz |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas: You are free to-night, without fighting; so much the better!
How did you manage to escape that scoundrel Mazarin? You
must have much reason to complain of him."
"Not very much," said D'Artagnan.
"Really!"
"I might even say that we have some reason to praise him."
"Impossible!"
"Yes, really; it is owing to him that we are free."
"Owing to him?"
"Yes, he had us conducted into the orangery by Monsieur
Bernouin, his valet-de-chambre, and from there we followed
Twenty Years After |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates: were ajar, letting the bright sunshine slant into the room.
"There was once," I said, "a fool." A smothered exclamation
close to my left ear. "A fool, who did everything wrong. He
lost his way, his heart, his head, and, last of all, his
b~balance. In that order. Yet he was proud. But then he was
only a fool."
"But he was- English," she murmured.
"Yes,"I said.
"And there was another fool," said Silvia. "A much bigger one,
really, because, although she never lost her way or her head or
her balance, she lost something much more precious. She lost her
The Brother of Daphne |
