| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum: | N. B.--This Mechanism is guaranteed to work |
| perfectly for a thousand years. |
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"Well, I declare!" gasped the yellow hen, in amazement; "if the copper
man can do half of these things he is a very wonderful machine. But I
suppose it is all humbug, like so many other patented articles."
"We might wind him up," suggested Dorothy, "and see what he'll do."
"Where is the key to the clock-work?" asked Billina.
"Hanging on the peg where I found the card."
"Then," said the hen, "let us try him, and find out if he will go. He
Ozma of Oz |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy: During these operations he was constantly on the watch
for Eustacia. That there should be no mistake about
her knowing where to find him he had ordered a notice
board to be affixed to the garden gate at Alderworth,
signifying in white letters whither he had removed.
When a leaf floated to the earth he turned his head,
thinking it might be her foot-fall. A bird searching
for worms in the mould of the flower-beds sounded like her
hand on the latch of the gate; and at dusk, when soft,
strange ventriloquisms came from holes in the ground,
hollow stalks, curled dead leaves, and other crannies
Return of the Native |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: his hands and feet set with claws, sharp and hooked like the
talons of a hawk. Poor Abdallah the fagot-maker lay upon his back
staring at the monster with a face as white as wax.
"What are thy commands?" said the Genie in a terrible voice, that
rumbled like the sound of thunder.
"I--I do not know," said Abdallah, trembling and shaking as with
an ague. "I--I have forgotten."
"Ask what thou wilt," said the Genie, "for I must ever obey
whomsoever hast the ring that thou wearest upon thy finger. Hath
my lord nothing to command wherein I may serve him?"
Abdallah shook his head. "No," said he, "there is nothing--unless--unless you will bring me
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