| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum: Soon they rolled the Lion out of the poppy bed to the green fields,
where he could breathe the sweet, fresh air again, instead of the
poisonous scent of the flowers.
Dorothy came to meet them and thanked the little mice warmly
for saving her companion from death. She had grown so fond of
the big Lion she was glad he had been rescued.
Then the mice were unharnessed from the truck and scampered
away through the grass to their homes. The Queen of the Mice was
the last to leave.
"If ever you need us again," she said, "come out into the
field and call, and we shall hear you and come to your assistance.
The Wizard of Oz |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Master and Man by Leo Tolstoy: only the reins had to be adjusted, Nikita sent the other man to
the shed for some straw and to the barn for a drugget.
'There, that's all right! Now, now, don't bristle up!' said
Nikita, pressing down into the sledge the freshly threshed oat
straw the cook's husband had brought. 'And now let's spread
the sacking like this, and the drugget over it. There, like
that it will be comfortable sitting,' he went on, suiting the
action to the words and tucking the drugget all round over the
straw to make a seat.
'Thank you, dear man. Things always go quicker with two
working at it!' he added. And gathering up the leather reins
Master and Man |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin: as long as its hind legs are kept outstretched, is quite
helpless, and the first man can with his hands loosen his laz
from the horns, and then quietly mount his horse; but th
moment the second man, by backing ever so little, relaxe
the strain, the lazo slips off the legs of the struggling beast
which then rises free, shakes himself, and vainly rushes a
his antagonist
During our whole ride we saw only one troop of wil
horses. These animals, as well as the cattle, were introduce
by the French in 1764, since which time both have greatl
increased. It is a curious fact, that the horses have neve
The Voyage of the Beagle |
