| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum: "He is in the house, nursing a black eye," replied Jinjur, calmly.
"The foolish man would insist upon milking the red cow when I wanted
him to milk the white one; but he will know better next time, I am sure."
Then the party moved on again, and after crossing a broad river on a
ferry and passing many fine farm houses that were dome shaped and
painted a pretty green color, they came in sight of a large building
that was covered with flags and bunting.
"I don't remember that building," said Dorothy. "What is it?"
"That is the College of Art and Athletic Perfection," replied Ozma.
"I had it built quite recently, and the Woggle-Bug is it's president.
It keeps him busy, and the young men who attend the college are no
Ozma of Oz |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Edingburgh Picturesque Notes by Robert Louis Stevenson: staff, perambulated the city, adding the terror of man's
justice to the fear of God's visitation. The dead they
buried on the Borough Muir; the living who had concealed
the sickness were drowned, if they were women, in the
Quarry Holes, and if they were men, were hanged and
gibbeted at their own doors; and wherever the evil had
passed, furniture was destroyed and houses closed. And
the most bogeyish part of the story is about such houses.
Two generations back they still stood dark and empty;
people avoided them as they passed by; the boldest
schoolboy only shouted through the keyhole and made off;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Desert Gold by Zane Grey: she held the stricken Nell to her breast. Then she opposed his
convictions with that quiet strength so characteristic of her
arguments.
"Well, then," decided Belding, "Rojas headed the rangers at Papago
Well or the Tanks."
"Tom, when you are down in the mouth you use poor judgment,"
she went on. "You know only by a miracle could Rojas or anybody
have headed those white horses. Where's your old stubborn
confidence? Yaqui was up on Diablo. Dick was up on Sol. And
there were the other horses. They could not have been headed or
caught. Miracles don't happen."
Desert Gold |
