| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Enchanted Island of Yew by L. Frank Baum: shouted, "Great Kika-koo!"
For there in the glass were the reflections of the three girls and
Nerle and King Terribus and Wul-Takim. And there were also the
reflections of the twin High Ki and the twin Ki. Only Prince Marvel's
reflection was missing, and this was because of his fairy origin. For
the glass could reflect and hold only the forms of mortals.
But the prince saw the reflections of all the others, and then made
the discovery that the forms of the Ki and the High Ki had become
invisible. No one except himself appeared to be standing in the great
hall of the Red Rogue's castle! Yet grouped within the glass were the
likenesses of all his friends, as well as those of Lady Seseley and
The Enchanted Island of Yew |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: Due to the toils of many a bloody day. ILLIAD.
It was necessary, for many reasons, that Angus M'Aulay, so long
the kind protector of Annot Lyle, should be made acquainted with
the change in the fortunes of his late protege; and Montrose, as
he had undertaken, communicated to him these remarkable events.
With the careless and cheerful indifference of his character, he
expressed much more joy than wonder at Annot's good fortune; had
no doubt whatever she would merit it, and as she had always been
bred in loyal principles, would convey the whole estate of her
grim fanatical father to some honest fellow who loved the king.
"I should have no objection that my brother Allan should try his
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Figure in the Carpet by Henry James: It was extravagant, I admit, the way she lived for the art of the
pen. Her passion visibly preyed on her, and in her presence I felt
almost tepid. I got hold of "Deep Down" again: it was a desert in
which she had lost herself, but in which too she had dug a
wonderful hole in the sand - a cavity out of which Corvick had
still more remarkably pulled her.
Early in March I had a telegram from her, in consequence of which I
repaired immediately to Chelsea, where the first thing she said to
me was: "He has got it, he has got it!"
She was moved, as I could see, to such depths that she must mean
the great thing. "Vereker's idea?"
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