| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Lost Princess of Oz by L. Frank Baum: loud voice cried, "Enter!" But they lost no time in taking advantage
of the invitation.
On either side of the broad street that led into the city from the
gate stood a row of huge giants, twenty of them on a side and all
standing so close together that their elbows touched. They wore
uniforms of blue and yellow and were armed with clubs as big around as
treetrunks. Each giant had around his neck a broad band of gold,
riveted on, to show he was a slave.
As our friends entered riding upon the Lion, the Woozy, the Sawhorse
and the Mule, the giants half turned and walked in two files on either
side of them, as if escorting them on their way. It looked to Dorothy
The Lost Princess of Oz |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne: Surveyor was walking the quarter-deck. They probably fancied
that my sole object -- and, indeed, the sole object for which a
sane man could ever put himself into voluntary motion -- was to
get an appetite for dinner. And, to say the truth, an appetite,
sharpened by the east wind that generally blew along the passage,
was the only valuable result of so much indefatigable exercise.
So little adapted is the atmosphere of a Custom-house to the
delicate harvest of fancy and sensibility, that, had I remained
there through ten Presidencies yet to come, I doubt whether the
tale of "The Scarlet Letter" would ever have been brought before
the public eye. My imagination was a tarnished mirror. It would
The Scarlet Letter |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: indignantly. "Thou knowest that thou likest to see the boy beaten
no more than I." Then, after a meditative pause, "How many, think
ye, we muster of our company of the Rose today?"
Wilkes looked doubtfully at Gascoyne. "There be only seventeen of
us here now," said he at last. "Brinton and Lambourne are away to
Roby Castle in Lord George's train, and will not be back till
Saturday next. And Watt Newton is in the infirmary.
"Seventeen be'st enou," said Myles, grimly. "Let us get together
this afternoon, such as may, in the Brutus Tower, for I, as I did
say, will no longer suffer these vile bachelors."
Gascoyne and Wilkes exchanged looks, and then the former blew a
Men of Iron |
