| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Emerald City of Oz by L. Frank Baum: may reasonably desire. Some tilled the lands and raised great crops
of grain, which was divided equally among the entire population, so
that all had enough. There were many tailors and dressmakers and
shoemakers and the like, who made things that any who desired them
might wear. Likewise there were jewelers who made ornaments for the
person, which pleased and beautified the people, and these ornaments
also were free to those who asked for them. Each man and woman, no
matter what he or she produced for the good of the community, was
supplied by the neighbors with food and clothing and a house and
furniture and ornaments and games. If by chance the supply ever ran
short, more was taken from the great storehouses of the Ruler, which
The Emerald City of Oz |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: peaks to the unimagined westward spaces, and had once indeed been
a ridge of mighty onyx hills. But now these hills were hills no
more, for some hand greater than man's had touched them. Silent
they squatted there atop the world like wolves or ghouls, crowned
with clouds and mists and guarding the secrets of the north forever.
All in a great half circle they squatted, those dog-like mountains
carven into monstrous watching statues, and their right hands
were raised in menace against mankind.
It was only the flickering
light of the clouds that made their mitred double heads seem to
move, but as Carter stumbled on he saw arise from their shadowy
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Breaking Point by Mary Roberts Rinehart: country to his defense, but instead he had chosen to disappear.
The whole situation turned on the deposition of Mrs. Donaldson, now
dead. The local authorities at Norada maintained that the woman
had not been sane for several years. On the other hand, the cabin
to which she referred was well known, and no search of it had been
made at the time. Clark's horse had been found not ten miles from
the town, and the cabin was buried in snow twenty miles further away.
If Clark had made that journey on foot he had accomplished the
impossible.
Certain facts, according to the local correspondent, bore out
Margaret Donaldson's confession. Inquiry showed that she was
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