| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott: "Does he wish to speak with me, Caleb?"
"Less will no serve him," said Caleb; "but ye had best take a
visie of him through the wicket before opening the gate; it's no
every ane we suld let into this castle."
"What! do you suppose him to be a messenger come to arrest me
for debt?" said Ravenswood.
"A messenger arrest your honour for debt, and in your Castle of
Wolf's Crag! Your honour is jesting wi' auld Caleb this
morning." However, he whispered in his ear, as he followed him
out, "I would be loth to do ony decent man a
prejudice in your honour's gude opinion; but I would tak twa
The Bride of Lammermoor |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum: Now the Wicked Witch had a great longing to have for her own
the Silver Shoes which the girl always wore. Her bees and her
crows and her wolves were lying in heaps and drying up, and she
had used up all the power of the Golden Cap; but if she could
only get hold of the Silver Shoes, they would give her more power
than all the other things she had lost. She watched Dorothy carefully,
to see if she ever took off her shoes, thinking she might steal them.
But the child was so proud of her pretty shoes that she never took
them off except at night and when she took her bath. The Witch was
too much afraid of the dark to dare go in Dorothy's room at night
to take the shoes, and her dread of water was greater than her
The Wizard of Oz |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from 1492 by Mary Johntson: do not know. It is in God's hands!''
``Do you see,'' I asked, ``a great statue of yourself?''
``Yes, I see that.''
The moon shone so brightly it was marvel. Land breeze
brought perfume from the enormous forest. ``It is too fair
to sleep!'' said the Admiral. ``I will sit here and think.''
He slept little at any time. His days were filled with action.
Never was any who had more business to attend to!
Yet he was of those to whom solitude is as air,--imperiously
a necessity. Into it he plunged through every crack and
cranny among events. He knew how to use the space in
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