| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum: tall trees, and seemed like mountains; and the gulfs between the great
billows were like deep valleys.
All this mad dashing and splashing of the waters of the big ocean,
which the mischievous wind caused without any good reason whatever,
resulted in a terrible storm, and a storm on the ocean is liable to
cut many queer pranks and do a lot of damage.
At the time the wind began to blow, a ship was sailing far out upon
the waters. When the waves began to tumble and toss and to grow
bigger and bigger the ship rolled up and down, and tipped
sidewise--first one way and then the other--and was jostled around so
roughly that even the sailor-men had to hold fast to the ropes and
Ozma of Oz |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Out of Time's Abyss by Edgar Rice Burroughs: ceiled with thin strips of wood, nicely fitted and finished,
partially plastered and the rest covered with a fine, woven cloth.
Figures of reptiles and beasts were painted without regard to
any uniform scheme here and there upon the walls. A striking
feature of the decorations consisted of several engaged columns
set into the walls at no regular intervals, the capitals of
each supporting a human skull the cranium of which touched the
ceiling, as though the latter was supported by these grim
reminders either of departed relatives or of some hideous tribal
rite--Bradley could not but wonder which.
Yet it was none of these things that filled him with greatest
Out of Time's Abyss |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson: valuable for their oil and feathers; and a part of the minister's
stipend of North Berwick is paid to this day in solan geese, which
makes it (in some folks' eyes) a parish to be coveted. To perform
these several businesses, as well as to protect the geese from
poachers, Andie had frequent occasion to sleep and pass days together
on the crag; and we found the man at home there like a farmer in his
steading. Bidding us all shoulder some of the packages, a matter in
which I made haste to bear a hand, he led us in by a looked gate, which
was the only admission to the island, and through the ruins of the
fortress, to the governor's house. There we saw by the ashes in the
chimney and a standing bed-place in one corner, that he made his usual
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