| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Magic of Oz by L. Frank Baum: warningly: "Look out!"
The travelers halted abruptly and the Wizard said: "Look out for what?"
"You almost stepped on my Diamond Palace," replied the voice, and a
duck with gorgeously colored feathers appeared before them. "Beasts
and men are terribly clumsy," continued the Duck in an irritated tone,
"and you've no business on this side of the River, anyway. What are
you doing here?"
"We've come to rescue some friends of ours who are stuck fast on the
Magic Isle in this river," explained Dorothy.
"I know 'em," said the Duck. "I've been to see 'em, and they're
stuck fast, all right. You may as well go back home, for no power can
The Magic of Oz |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: consequence of his marriage, was now his nearest ally, prolonged
his confinement, in order to enjoy the management of his immense
estates. There was one who owed his all to the sufferer, an
humble friend, but grateful and faithful. By unceasing exertion,
and repeated invocation of justice, he at length succeeded in
obtaining his patron's freedom, and reinstatement in the
management of his own property, to which was soon added that of
his intended bride, who having died without male issue, her
estates reverted to him, as heir of entail. But freedom and
wealth were unable to restore the equipoise of his mind; to the
former his grief made him indifferent--the latter only served him
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin: characteristic, that this man should prefer his countrymen
being thought the worst of traitors, rather than unskilful or
cowardly.
18th and 19th. -- We continued slowly to sail down the
noble stream: the current helped us but little. We met,
during our descent, very few vessels. One of the best gifts
of nature, in so grand a channel of communication, seems
here wilfully thrown away -- a river in which ships might
navigate from a temperate country, as surprisingly abundant
in certain productions as destitute of others, to another
possessing a tropical climate, and a soil which, according to
The Voyage of the Beagle |
