| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Cromwell by William Shakespeare: That one day will prefer thy destiny.
[Enter Messenger.]
MESSENGER.
Sir, the Lords be at hand.
HALES.
They are welcome; bid Cromwell straight attend us,
And look you all things be in perfect readiness.
[The Music plays. Enter Cardinal Wolsey, Sir Thomas
More and Gardiner.]
WOLSEY.
O, sir Christopher,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Lost Princess of Oz by L. Frank Baum: drawing room of Glinda the Good.
He was there in a flash. First he took the Great Book of Records and
put it in the dishpan. Then he went to Glinda's laboratory and took
all her rare chemical compounds and her instruments of sorcery,
placing these also in the dishpan, which he caused to grow large
enough to hold them. Next he seated himself amongst the treasures he
had stolen and wished himself in the room in Ozma's palace which the
Wizard occupied and where he kept his bag of magic tools. This bag
Ugu added to his plunder and then wished himself in the apartments of
Ozma.
Here he first took the Magic Picture from the wall and then seized all
The Lost Princess of Oz |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Troll Garden and Selected Stories by Willa Cather: "What made him kill himself such a silly way?"
The simplicity of the boy's question set Nils laughing. He
clapped little Eric on the shoulder. "What made him such a silly
as to kill himself at all, I should say!"
"Oh, well! But his hogs had the cholera, and all up and died
on him, didn't they?"
"Sure they did; but he didn't have cholera; and there were
plenty of bogs left in the world, weren't there?"
"Well, but, if they weren't his, how could they do him any
good?" Eric asked, in astonishment.
"Oh, scat! He could have had lots of fun with other people's
The Troll Garden and Selected Stories |
