| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne: fertility of every valley, as well as the hind who ploughs it; and be able
to describe, or, if it is required, to give thee an exact map of all the
plains and defiles, the forts, the acclivities, the woods and morasses,
thro' and by which his army is to march; he should know their produce,
their plants, their minerals, their waters, their animals, their seasons,
their climates, their heats and cold, their inhabitants, their customs,
their language, their policy, and even their religion.
Is it else to be conceived, corporal, continued my uncle Toby, rising up in
his sentry-box, as he began to warm in this part of his discourse--how
Marlborough could have marched his army from the banks of the Maes to
Belburg; from Belburg to Kerpenord--(here the corporal could sit no longer)
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Lost Princess of Oz by L. Frank Baum: "And this is awful hard work for the Wizard," added Trot.
"Why couldn't the Lion ride on the Woozy's back?"
asked Dorothy."it's a big, flat back, and the Woozy's mighty strong.
Perhaps the Lion wouldn't fall off."
"You may try it if you like," said the Woozy to the Lion. "I can take
you to the city in a jiffy and then come back for Hank."
"I'm--I'm afraid," said the Cowardly Lion. He was twice as big as the
Woozy.
"Try it," pleaded Dorothy.
"And take a tumble among the thistles?"asked the Lion reproachfully.
But when the Woozy came close to him, the big beast suddenly bounded
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: often come in through the tiniest crack and has stood before me
in all her size and splendor."
His voice was weaker, so I moistened his lips with the brandy again,
and he continued, but it seemed as though his memory had gone
on working in the interval for his story was further advanced.
I was about to call him back to the point, but Van Helsing
whispered to me, "Let him go on. Do not interrupt him.
He cannot go back, and maybe could not proceed at all if once
he lost the thread of his thought."
He proceeded, "All day I waited to hear from him, but he did not send
me anything, not even a blowfly, and when the moon got up I was pretty
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