| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz by L. Frank Baum: "Do you mean that I'm a freak?" asked Jim, angrily.
"Oh, no," she hastened to say, "there may be many more like you in the
place you came from, but in Oz any horse but a Sawhorse is unusual."
This mollified Jim a little, and after some thought the green maiden
decided to give the cab-horse a room in the palace, such a big
building having many rooms that were seldom in use.
So Zeb unharnessed Jim, and several of the servants then led the horse
around to the rear, where they selected a nice large apartment that he
could have all to himself.
Then Jellia said to the Wizard:
"Your own room--which was back of the great Throne Room--has been
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: seemed to have grown years older. His brow was wrinkled, his lip
compressed, his eyes full of a terrible stony calm, as of one who
had formed a great and dreadful purpose, and yet for that very
reason could afford to be quiet under the burden of it, even
cheerful; and when he returned to the cabin he bowed courteously to
the commandant, begged pardon of him for having played the host so
ill, and entreated him to finish his breakfast.
"But, senor--is it possible? Is his holiness dead?"
"He is hanged and dead, senor. I would have hanged, could I have
caught them, every living thing which was present at my brother's
death, even to the very flies upon the wall. No more words, senor;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: He answer'd thus: 'Young Talbot was not born
To be the pillage of a giglot wench:'
So, rushing in the bowels of the French,
He left me proudly, as unworthy fight.
BURGUNDY.
Doubtless he would have made a noble knight:
See, where he lies inhearsed in the arms
Of the most bloody nurser of his harms!
BASTARD.
Hew them to pieces, hack their bones asunder,
Whose life was England's glory, Gallia's wonder.
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