| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Scarecrow of Oz by L. Frank Baum: age, but all can see how beautiful and stately she is.
Her hair is like red gold and finer than the finest
silken strands. Her eyes are blue as the sky and always
frank and smiling. Her cheeks are the envy of peach-blows
and her mouth is enticing as a rosebud. Glinda is tall
and wears splendid gowns that trail behind her as she
walks. She wears no jewels, for her beauty would shame
them.
For attendants Glinda has half a hundred of the
loveliest girls in Oz. They are gathered from all over
Oz, from among the Winkies, the Munchkins, the Gillikins
The Scarecrow of Oz |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Virginian by Owen Wister: Len grinned.
"Better persuade the schoolmarm to learn it. She's goin' to give
me instruction."
"Huh!" went Mr. McLean, and skulked out to the barrel.
"Why, they claimed you weren't drinkin' this month!" said his
friend, following.
"Well, I am. Here's luck!" The two pledged in tin cups. "But I'm
not waltzin' with her," blurted Mr. McLean grievously. "She
called me an exception."
"Waltzin'," repeated the Virginian quickly, and hearing the
fiddles he hastened away.
The Virginian |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: common racial legends about Buddai, the gigantic old man who lies
asleep for ages underground with his head on his arm, and who
will some day awake and eat up the world.
There are some very
old and half-forgotten tales of enormous underground huts of great
stones, where passages lead down and down, and where horrible
things have happened. The blackfellows claim that once some warriors,
fleeing in battle, went down into one and never came back, but
that frightful winds began to blow from the place soon after they
went down. However, there usually isn't much in what these natives
say.
Shadow out of Time |
