| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Rinkitink In Oz by L. Frank Baum: someone has passed along here and, seeing the shoe upon
the dust-heap, has carried it away. But no one could
know the magic power the shoe contains and so will not
use it against us. I believe, Inga, we must now depend
upon our wits to get us out of the scrape we are in.
With saddened hearts they returned to the palace, and
entering a small room where no one could observe them
or overhear them, the boy took the White Pearl from its
silken bag and held it to his ear, asking:
"What shall I do now?"
"Tell no one of your loss," answered the Voice of the
Rinkitink In Oz |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: maintain that the ass has a prepotent power over the horse, so that both
the mule and the hinny more resemble the ass than the horse; but that the
prepotency runs more strongly in the male-ass than in the female, so that
the mule, which is the offspring of the male-ass and mare, is more like an
ass, than is the hinny, which is the offspring of the female-ass and
stallion.
Much stress has been laid by some authors on the supposed fact, that
mongrel animals alone are born closely like one of their parents; but it
can be shown that this does sometimes occur with hybrids; yet I grant much
less frequently with hybrids than with mongrels. Looking to the cases
which I have collected of cross-bred animals closely resembling one parent,
On the Origin of Species |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Buttered Side Down by Edna Ferber: grand-stand with the rest of the enthusiasts, and when Kelly puts
one over she stands up and clinches her fists, and waves her arms
and shouts with the best of 'em. She has even been known to cry,
"Good eye! Good eye!" when things were at fever heat. The only
really blase individual in the ball park is Willie Grimes, who
peddles ice-cream cones. For that matter, I once saw Willie turn
a languid head to pipe, in his thin voice, "Give 'em a dark one,
Dutch! Give 'em a dark one!"
Well, that will do for the firsh dash of local color. Now for
the story.
Ivy Keller came home June nineteenth from Miss Shont's select
Buttered Side Down |
