| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Maid Marian by Thomas Love Peacock: "Must you?" said the baron; "I say you must not."
"But I am going," said Matilda
"But I will have up the drawbridge," said the baron.
"But I will swim the moat," said Matilda.
"But I will secure the gates," said the baron.
"But I will leap from the battlement," said Matilda.
"But I will lock you in an upper chamber," said the baron.
"But I will shred the tapestry," said Matilda, "and let myself down."
"But I will lock you in a turret," said the baron, "where you
shall only see light through a loophole."
"But through that loophole," said Matilda, "will I take my flight,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde: I had - well, what shall I say? - œ2000 a year left to me by a
third cousin - or a second husband - or some distant relative of
that kind. It would be an additional attraction, wouldn't it? You
have a delightful opportunity now of paying me a compliment,
Windermere. But you are not very clever at paying compliments. I
am afraid Margaret doesn't encourage you in that excellent habit.
It's a great mistake on her part. When men give up saying what is
charming, they give up thinking what is charming. But seriously,
what do you say to œ2000? œ2500, I think. In modern life margin
is everything. Windermere, don't you think the world an intensely
amusing place? I do!
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum: beautiful dressing-room that lay just between Langwidere's
sleeping-chamber and the mirrored sitting-room. Each head was in a
separate cupboard lined with velvet. The cupboards ran all around the
sides of the dressing-room, and had elaborately carved doors with gold
numbers on the outside and jeweled-framed mirrors on the inside of them.
When the Princess got out of her crystal bed in the morning she went
to her cabinet, opened one of the velvet-lined cupboards, and took the
head it contained from its golden shelf. Then, by the aid of the
mirror inside the open door, she put on the head--as neat and straight
as could be--and afterward called her maids to robe her for the day.
She always wore a simple white costume, that suited all the heads.
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