| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Scarecrow of Oz by L. Frank Baum: return so royally that a great celebration was held in my
honor. So I couldn't very well leave Orkland again until
the excitement was over."
"Can you find your way back home again?" asked the boy.
"Yes, easily; for now I know exactly where it is. But
where are Trot and Cap'n Bill?"
Button-Bright related to the Ork their adventures since
it had left them in Jinxland, telling of Trot's fear that
the King had done something wicked to Cap'n Bill, and of
Pon's love for Gloria, and how Trot and Button-Bright had
been turned out of the King's castle. That was all the
The Scarecrow of Oz |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Silas Marner by George Eliot: money was taken away from me in time; and you see it's been kept--
kept till it was wanted for you. It's wonderful--our life is
wonderful."
Silas sat in silence a few minutes, looking at the money. "It
takes no hold of me now," he said, ponderingly--"the money
doesn't. I wonder if it ever could again--I doubt it might, if I
lost you, Eppie. I might come to think I was forsaken again, and
lose the feeling that God was good to me."
At that moment there was a knocking at the door; and Eppie was
obliged to rise without answering Silas. Beautiful she looked, with
the tenderness of gathering tears in her eyes and a slight flush on
Silas Marner |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H. B. Irving: way from Sheffield to swear that he had been with her there on
the night of the crime.
He was released from prison again in 1864, and returned to
Sheffield. Things did not prosper with him there, and he went
back to Manchester. In 1866 he was caught in the act of burglary
at a house in Lower Broughton. He admitted that at the time he
was fuddled with whisky; otherwise his capture would have been
more difficult and dangerous. Usually a temperate man, Peace
realised on this occasion the value of sobriety even in burglary,
and never after allowed intemperance to interfere with his
success. A sentence of eight years' penal servitude at
A Book of Remarkable Criminals |
