| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Magic of Oz by L. Frank Baum: not eat mice. Being transparent, so anyone can see through me,
I'd look nice, wouldn't I, with a common mouse inside me? But
the fact is that I haven't any stomach or other machinery that
would permit me to eat things. The careless magician who made me
didn't think I'd need to eat, I suppose."
"Don't you ever get hungry or thirsty?" asked Trot.
"Never. I don't complain, you know, at the way I'm made, for
I've never yet seen any living thing as beautiful as I am. I
have the handsomest brains in the world. They're pink, and you
can see 'em work."
"I wonder," said Trot thoughtfully, as she ate her bread and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: Lord may have mercy on that soul, as "clear as diamond, and as
hard," as she said of herself. That last scene, too, before the
fatal block--it could not be altogether acting. Mrs. Leigh had
learned many a priceless lesson in the last seven years; might not
Mary Stuart have learned something in seventeen? And Mrs. Leigh
had been a courtier, and knew, as far as a chaste Englishwoman
could know (which even in those coarser days was not very much), of
that godless style of French court profligacy in which poor Mary
had had her youthful training, amid the Medicis, and the Guises,
and Cardinal Lorraine; and she shuddered, and sighed to herself"--
To whom little is given, of them shall little be required!" But
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The King of the Golden River by John Ruskin: disappeared; its ears became long, longer, silky, golden; its nose
became very red; its eyes became very twinkling; in three seconds
the dog was gone, and before Gluck stood his old acquaintance, the
King of the Golden River.
"Thank you," said the monarch. "But don't be frightened;
it's all right"--for Gluck showed manifest symptoms of
consternation at this unlooked-for reply to his last observation.
"Why didn't you come before," continued the dwarf, "instead of
sending me those rascally brothers of yours, for me to have the
trouble of turning into stones? Very hard stones they make, too."
"O dear me!" said Gluck, "have you really been so cruel?"
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