| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Light of Western Stars by Zane Grey: sun, made a welcome change. The pack-train rested, and Stewart
and Madeline waited for the party to come up. Here he briefly
explained to her that Don Carlos and his bandits had left the
ranch some time in the night. Thunder rumbled in the distance,
and a faint wind rustled the scant foliage of the cedars. The
air grew oppressive; the horses panted.
"Sure it'll be a hummer," said Stewart. "The first storm almost
always is bad. I can feel it in the air."
The air, indeed, seemed to be charged with a heavy force that was
waiting to be liberated.
One by one the couples mounted to the cedar forest, and the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Two Noble Kinsmen by William Shakespeare: Now, now, it beates upon it; now, now, now,
Ther's a leak sprung, a sound one, how they cry!
Spoon her before the winde, you'l loose all els:
Vp with a course or two, and take about, Boyes.
Good night, good night, y'ar gone.--I am very hungry.
Would I could finde a fine Frog; he would tell me
Newes from all parts o'th world, then would I make
A Carecke of a Cockle shell, and sayle
By east and North East to the King of Pigmes,
For he tels fortunes rarely. Now my Father,
Twenty to one, is trust up in a trice
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz by L. Frank Baum: the two children, and when Jim started to leave the hall the kitten
jumped upon his back and sat there quite contentedly.
So the procession moved through the streets, the bearers of the
Sorcerer first, the Prince next, then Jim drawing the buggy with the
strangers inside of it, and last the crowd of vegetable people who had
no hearts and could neither smile nor frown.
The glass city had several fine streets, for a good many people lived
there; but when the procession had passed through these it came upon a
broad plain covered with gardens and watered by many pretty brooks
that flowed through it. There were paths through these gardens, and
over some of the brooks were ornamental glass bridges.
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