| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum: a part of the mountain, where the rock seemed to
have split in two and left high walls on either
side.
"S'pose we go this way," suggested Dorothy;
it's much easier walking than to climb over
the hills."
"How about that sign?" asked Ojo.
"What sign?" she inquired.
The Munchkin boy pointed to some words
painted on the wall of rock beside them, which
Dorothy had not noticed. The words read:
The Patchwork Girl of Oz |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: fed continually by fresh snow-storms falling from the sky. That
snow slides off into the valleys hour by hour, and as it rushes
down is ground and pounded, and thawed and frozen again into a
sticky paste of ice, which flows slowly but surely till it reaches
the warm valley at the mountain foot, and there melts bit by bit.
The long black lines which you see winding along the white and
green ice of the glacier are the stones which have fallen from the
cliffs above. They will be dropped at the end of the glacier, and
mixed with silt and sand and other stones which have come down
inside the glacier itself, and piled up in the field in great
mounds, which are called moraines, such as you may see and walk on
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield: ones began to cry. Big spots of rain blew against the windows, and one
could hear the willows whispering, "...not that I do not love you..."
"But, my darling, if you love me," thought Miss Meadows, "I don't mind how
much it is. Love me as little as you like." But she knew he didn't love
her. Not to have cared enough to scratch out that word "disgust," so that
she couldn't read it! "Soon Autumn yields unto Winter Drear." She would
have to leave the school, too. She could never face the Science Mistress
or the girls after it got known. She would have to disappear somewhere.
"Passes away." The voices began to die, to fade, to whisper...to vanish...
Suddenly the door opened. A little girl in blue walked fussily up the
aisle, hanging her head, biting her lips, and twisting the silver bangle on
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