| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Just Folks by Edgar A. Guest: The things on a shelf that I'd like for myself
I never regret I can't buy.
I can go through the town passing store after store
Showing things it would please me to own,
With never a trace of despair on my face,
But I can't let a toy shop alone.
I can throttle the love of fine raiment to death
And I don't know the craving for rum,
But I do know the joy that is born of a toy,
And the pleasure that comes with a drum
I can reckon the value of money at times,
Just Folks |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Road to Oz by L. Frank Baum: and little King Bud was so frank and boyish that Button-Bright
accepted him as a chum at once and did not want him to go away. But
it was after noon now, and the royal guests must prepare their toilets
for the grand banquet at which they were to assemble that evening to
meet the reigning Princess of this Fairyland; so Queen Zixi was shown
to her room by a troop of maidens led by Jellia Jamb, and Bud and
Fluff presently withdrew to their own apartments.
"My! what a big party Ozma is going to have," exclaimed Dorothy.
"I guess the palace will be chock full, Button-Bright; don't you
think so?"
"Don't know," said the boy.
The Road to Oz |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas: "I have performed that same distance in forty hours, and by ten
o'clock in the morning I must be in London."
"Very sorry, monsieur; but I was here first, and will not sail
second."
"I am sorry, too, monsieur; but I arrived second, and must sail
first."
"The king's service!" said the gentleman.
"My own service!" said D'Artagnan.
"But this is a needless quarrel you seek with me, as it seems to
me."
"PARBLEU! What do you desire it to be?"
The Three Musketeers |
