| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Glinda of Oz by L. Frank Baum: quickly around they beheld a huge purple spider sitting
not two yards away and regarding them with its small
bright eyes.
Then there crawled from the bushes a dozen more great
purple spiders, which saluted the first one and said:
"The web is finished, O King, and the strangers are
our prisoners."
Dorothy did not like the looks of these spiders at
all. They had big heads, sharp claws, small eyes and
fuzzy hair all over their purple bodies.
"They look wicked," she whispered to Ozma. "What
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Dreams & Dust by Don Marquis: Exulting as the bold dawn swept
A harper hand along the ringing hills?
Flesh of his flesh, and of his soul the soul,
Hath she not fought, hath she not climbed?
And how is she a lesser thing?--
Nay, if she ever was
'Twas we that made her so, who called her queen
But kept her slave.
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Had she not courage for the fight?
Hath she not courage for the years to come?
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain: with descriptions of weddings and burials that had occurred in it,
together with recitals of congratulatory verses and obituary poetry
provoked by the same: then this memory would recollect that one
of these events occurred during the celebrated 'hard winter'
of such and such a year, and a minute description of that winter
would follow, along with the names of people who were frozen to death,
and statistics showing the high figures which pork and hay went up to.
Pork and hay would suggest corn and fodder; corn and fodder would
suggest cows and horses; cows and horses would suggest the circus
and certain celebrated bare-back riders; the transition from
the circus to the menagerie was easy and natural; from the elephant
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