| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum: "That may be; but the pill gave me a dreadful pain, just the same," said the
boy.
"Impossible!" declared the Woggle-
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Bug. "If you have never swallowed it, the pill can not have given you a
pain. And as your wish, being granted, proves you did not swallow the pill,
it is also plain that you suffered no pain."
"Then it was a splendid imitation of a pain," retorted Tip, angrily.
"Suppose you try the next pill yourself. We've wasted one wish already."
"Oh, no, we haven't!" protested the Scarecrow. "Here are still three pills
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Virginian by Owen Wister: "I've been sorry for her right along," said the Virginian. "She
does hate the roosters so." And he said that he was making a
collection of every class of object which he found her treating
as eggs.
But Em'ly's egg-industry was terminated abruptly one morning, and
her unquestioned energies diverted to a new channel. A turkey
which had been sitting in the root-house appeared with twelve
children, and a family of bantams occurred almost simultaneously.
Em'ly was importantly scratching the soil inside Paladin's corral
when the bantam tribe of newly born came by down the lane, and
she caught sight of them through the bars. She crossed the corral
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Turn of the Screw by Henry James: back to school," I said, "if it be that that troubles you.
But not to the old place--we must find another, a better.
How could I know it did trouble you, this question,
when you never told me so, never spoke of it at all?"
His clear, listening face, framed in its smooth whiteness,
made him for the minute as appealing as some wistful
patient in a children's hospital; and I would have given,
as the resemblance came to me, all I possessed on earth really
to be the nurse or the sister of charity who might have helped
to cure him. Well, even as it was, I perhaps might help!
"Do you know you've never said a word to me about your school--
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