| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Complete Poems of Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: When I speak the wigwam trembles,
Shakes the Sacred Lodge with terror,
Hands unseen begin to shake it!
When I walk, the sky I tread on
Bends and makes a noise beneath me!
I can blow you strong, my brother!
Rise and speak, O Hiawatha!"
"Hi-au-ha!" replied the chorus,
"Way-ha-way!" the mystic chorus.
Then they shook their medicine-pouches
O'er the head of Hiawatha,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Magic of Oz by L. Frank Baum: reading this story aloud, to be careful not to pronounce Pyrzqxgl
the proper way, and thus avoid all danger of the secret being able to
work mischief.
Bini Aru, having discovered the secret of instant transformation,
which required no tools or powders or other chemicals or herbs and
always worked perfectly, was reluctant to have such a wonderful
discovery entirely unknown or lost to all human knowledge. He decided
not to use it again, since Ozma had forbidden him to do so, but he
reflected that Ozma was a girl and some time might change her mind
and allow her subjects to practice magic, in which case Bini Aru could
again transform himself and others at will,--unless, of course, he
The Magic of Oz |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad: Straits, marked its own path by a streak of light that glided
upon the sea and darted up the wide reach of the river, a hurried
messenger of light and life to the gloomy forests of the coast;
and in this radiance of the sun's pathway floated the black canoe
heading for the islet which lay bathed in sunshine, the yellow
sands of its encircling beach shining like an inlaid golden disc
on the polished steel of the unwrinkled sea. To the north and
south of it rose other islets, joyous in their brilliant
colouring of green and yellow, and on the main coast the sombre
line of mangrove bushes ended to the southward in the reddish
cliffs of Tanjong Mirrah, advancing into the sea, steep and
Almayer's Folly |
