| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Magic of Oz by L. Frank Baum: Kiki, and he was not sorry the boy had transformed the Wizard and
Dorothy and made them helpless. It was his own transformation that
annoyed him and made him indignant, so he ran about the forest hunting
for Kiki, so that he might get a better shape and coax the boy to
follow his plans to conquer the Land of Oz.
Kiki Aru hadn't gone very far away, for he had surprised himself as
well as the others by the quick transformations and was puzzled as to
what to do next. Ruggedo the Nome was overbearing and tricky, and
Kiki knew he was not to be depended on; but the Nome could plan and
plot, which the Hyup boy was not wise enough to do, and so, when he
looked down through the branches of a tree and saw a Goose waddling
The Magic of Oz |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Anthem by Ayn Rand: Councils elected since the Great Rebirth.
But we loved the Science of Things. We wished
to know. We wished to know about all the
things which make the earth around us.
We asked so many questions that
the Teachers forbade it.
We think that there are mysteries in the
sky and under the water and in the plants
which grow. But the Council of Scholars
has said that there are no mysteries,
and the Council of Scholars knows all things.
Anthem |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: her.
He would have followed her to France but for the
fact that, after he had parted from her and the intoxi-
cation of her immediate presence had left his brain
clear to think rationally, he had realized the futility of
his hopes, and he had seen that the pressing of his suit
could mean only suffering and mortification for the
woman he loved.
His better judgment told him that she, on her part,
when freed from the subtle spell woven by the near-
ness and the newness of a first love would doubtless be
The Outlaw of Torn |
