| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum: "You're just a Thing," answered Tip, "with a Gump's head on it. And we have
made you and brought you to life so that you may carry us through the air
wherever we wish to go."
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"Very good!" said the Thing. "As I am not a Gump, I cannot have a Gump's
pride or independent spirit. So I may as well become your servant as
anything else. My only satisfaction is that I do not seem to have a very
strong constitution, and am not likely to live long in a state of slavery."
"Don't say that, I beg of you!" cried the Tin Woodman, whose excellent heart
was strongly affected by this sad speech." Are you not feeling well today?"
"Oh, as for that," returned the Gump, "it is my first day of existence; so I
The Marvelous Land of Oz |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Virginian by Owen Wister: compelled to accept this piece of knowledge thrust upon her. Yet
still, still, those events had been before she knew him. They
were remote, without detail or context. He had been little more
than a boy. No doubt it was to save his own life. And so she bore
the hurt of her discovery all the more easily because her
sister's tone roused her to defend her cow-boy.
But now!
In her cabin, alone, after midnight, she arose from her sleepless
bed, and lighting the candle, stood before his photograph.
"It is a good face," her great-aunt had said, after some study of
it. And these words were in her mind now. There his likeness
The Virginian |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence: put to show the end of a paragraph, and a break in the theme.
When the girls came home for the summer holidays of 1913, when Hilda
was twenty and Connie eighteen, their father could see plainly that
they had had the love experience.
L'AMOUR AVAIT POSS PAR Lˇ, as somebody puts it. But he was a man of
experience himself, and let life take its course. As for the mot a
nervous invalid in the last few months of her life, she wanted her
girls to be 'free', and to 'fulfil themselves'. She herself had never
been able to be altogether herself: it had been denied her. Heaven
knows why, for she was a woman who had her own income and her own way.
She blamed her husband. But as a matter of fact, it was some old
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