| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Glinda of Oz by L. Frank Baum: But she was not discouraged.
"Anything new, Ozma?" she asked.
"No, dear. Did you discover the three fishes?"
"Not yet. But there isn't anything better for me to
do, Ozma, so I guess I'll go back and watch again."
Chapter Thirteen
The Alarm Bell
Glinda, the Good, in her palace in the Quadling
Country, had many things to occupy her mind, for not
only did she look after the weaving and embroidery of
her bevy of maids, and assist all those who came to her
Glinda of Oz |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce: defined lines of ramification and to beat with an
inconceivably rapid periodicity. They seemed like streams of
pulsating fire heating him to an intolerable temperature. As
to his head, he was conscious of nothing but a feeling of
fullness -- of congestion. These sensations were
unaccompanied by thought. The intellectual part of his
nature was already effaced; he had power only to feel, and
feeling was torment. He was conscious of motion.
Encompassed in a luminous cloud, of which he was now merely
the fiery heart, without material substance, he swung
through unthinkable arcs of oscillation, like a vast
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: intellectual culture and its most productive labour, but
intelligence, science, and industry were accounted degrading,
because the mark of inferior and detested peoples."
This is the key to the whole subsequent history of Spain.
Bigotry, loyalty, and consecrated idleness are the three factors
which have made that great country what it is to-day,--the most
backward region in Europe. In view of the circumstances just
narrated, it is not surprising to learn that in Philip II.'s time
a vast portion of the real estate of the country was held by the
Church in mortmain; that forty-nine noble families owned all the
rest; that all great estates were held in tail; and that the
The Unseen World and Other Essays |
