| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Scarecrow of Oz by L. Frank Baum: that the Ork could not hear her -- "for I shouldn't like
to be in a country where only Orks live. This one Ork
isn't a bad companion, but a lot of him wouldn't be much
fun."
After a few more minutes of flying the Ork called out
in a sad voice:
"No! this is not my country. It's a place I have never
seen before, although I have wandered far and wide. It
seems to be all mountains and deserts and green valleys
and queer cities and lakes and rivers --mixed up in a
very puzzling way."
The Scarecrow of Oz |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London: the management.
"But the point of Amateur Night, and it is well to note it, is that these
amateurs are not really amateurs. They are paid for doing their turn. At the
best, they may be termed 'professional amateurs.' It stands to reason that the
management could not get people to face a rampant audience for nothing, and on
such occasions the audience certainly goes mad. It's great fun--for the
audience. But the thing for you to do, and it requires nerve, I assure you, is
to go out, make arrangements for two turns, (Wednesday and Saturday nights, I
believe), do your two turns, and write it up for the SUNDAY INTELLIGENCER."
"But--but," she quavered, "I--I--" and there was a suggestion of
disappointment and tears in her voice.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Two Poets by Honore de Balzac: not confess.
M. de Saintot, otherwise Astolphe, President of the Agricultural
Society, a tall, stout, high-colored personage, usually appeared in
the wake of his wife, Elisa, a lady with a countenance like a withered
fern, called Lili by her friends--a baby name singularly at variance
with its owner's character and demeanor. Mme. de Saintot was a solemn
and extremely pious woman, and a very trying partner at a game of
cards. Astolphe was supposed to be a scientific man of the first rank.
He was as ignorant as a carp, but he had compiled the articles on
Sugar and Brandy for a Dictionary of Agriculture by wholesale plunder
of newspaper articles and pillage of previous writers. It was believed
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