| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson: came within a yard and a half to peer over. For at any
moment the dump might begin to slide and carry you down and
bury you below its ruins. Indeed, the neighbourhood of an
old mine is a place beset with dangers. For as still as
Silverado was, at any moment the report of rotten wood might
tell us that the platform had fallen into the shaft; the dump
might begin to pour into the road below; or a wedge slip in
the great upright seam, and hundreds of tons of mountain bury
the scene of our encampment.
I have already compared the dump to a rampart, built
certainly by some rude people, and for prehistoric wars. It
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tin Woodman of Oz by L. Frank Baum: faster than the boy, they often stumbled and fell, or
got in one another's way, so he managed to catch
several and prick them with his thorn.
It astonished him to see how easily the Loons
exploded. When the air was let out of them they were
quite helpless. Til Loon was one of those who ran
against his thorn and many others suffered the same
fate. The creatures could not escape from the
enclosure, but in their fright many bounded upward and
caught branches of the trees, and then climbed out of
reach of the dreaded thorn.
The Tin Woodman of Oz |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Love Songs by Sara Teasdale: And I have left the land of men,
Oh, let me love with all my strength
Careless if I am loved again.
Spring Night
The park is filled with night and fog,
The veils are drawn about the world,
The drowsy lights along the paths
Are dim and pearled.
Gold and gleaming the empty streets,
Gold and gleaming the misty lake,
The mirrored lights like sunken swords,
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