| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Stories From the Old Attic by Robert Harris: "To San Diego."
"Then where are you going?"
"Back home, why?"
"And then where are you going?"
"Well, oh, I get it. Then I'm going to rise in the firm and
become president."
"And then where will you go?"
"I guess eventually I'll retire. Say, you feeling all right? You
seem a little strange."
"But after you retire, where will you go?"
"Well, we all die eventually, so I guess I'll wind up at the cemetery."
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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: us, Cap'n Bill?"
"I'm tryin' to make out," he answered. "Take off your shoes, Trot.
P'raps it's the leather soles that's stuck to the ground."
She leaned down and unlaced her shoes, but found she could not pull
her feet out of them. The Glass Cat, which was walking around as
naturally as ever, now said:
"Your foot has got roots to it, Cap'n, and I can see the roots going
into the ground, where they spread out in all directions. It's the same
way with Trot. That's why you can't move. The roots hold you fast."
Cap'n Bill was rather fat and couldn't see his own feet very well,
but he squatted down and examined Trot's feet and decided that the
The Magic of Oz |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Human Drift by Jack London: changed your mind, or did not know you mind, because you have--to
use an unnecessarily harsh word--jilted a man -
LORETTA. [Interrupting, raising her head and looking at him.]
Jilted? Oh Ned, if that were a all!
NED. [Hollow voice.] All!
[NED's hands slowly retreat from hers. He opens his mouth as
though to speak further, then changes his mind and remains
silent.]
LORETTA. [Protestingly.] But I don't want to marry him!
NED. Then I shouldn't.
LORETTA. But I ought to marry him.
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