| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Scarecrow of Oz by L. Frank Baum: to the ground. No harm was done, however, and the straw
man got up and brushed the dust from his clothes while
Trot delightedly embraced Cap'n Bill.
"The other box! Quick! Give me the other box," begged
Blinkie, who had now shrunk to half her former size.
"Not yet," said the Scarecrow. "You must first melt
Princess Gloria's frozen heart."
"I can't; it's an awful job to do that! I can't,"
asserted the witch, in an agony of fear -- for still she
was growing smaller.
"You must!" declared the Scarecrow, firmly.
The Scarecrow of Oz |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Breaking Point by Mary Roberts Rinehart: operated. There was no time to send to a town.
All night, after the operation, Dick watched by the bedside, the
woman moving back and forth restlessly. He got his only knowledge
of the story, such as it was, then when she said once:
"I deserved this, but he didn't. I took him away from his wife."
He had to stay on after that, for the woman could not be left
alone. And he was glad of the respite, willing to drift until he
got his bearings. Certain things had come back, more as pictures
than realities. Thus he saw David clearly, Lucy dimly, Elizabeth
not at all. But David came first; David in the buggy with the
sagging springs, David's loud voice and portly figure, David, steady
The Breaking Point |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from American Notes by Rudyard Kipling: about your Horse Guards now?"
I explained briefly some peculiarities of equipment connected
with our crackest crack cavalry. I grieve to say the camp roared.
"Take 'em over swampy ground. Let 'em run around a bit an' work
the starch out of 'em, an' then, Almighty, if we wouldn't plug
'em at ease I'd eat their horses."
There was a maiden--a very little maiden--who had just stepped
out of one of James's novels. She owned a delightful mother and
an equally delightful father--a heavy-eyed, slow-voiced man of
finance. The parents thought that their daughter wanted change.
She lived in New Hampshire. Accordingly, she had dragged them up
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