| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz by L. Frank Baum: that crack--or through it if I got there."
"It appears that the path ends here," announced the Wizard, gloomily.
"And there is no way to go back," added Zeb, with a low whistle
of perplexity.
"I was sure it would come to this, in the end," remarked the old
cab-horse. "Folks don't fall into the middle of the earth and then
get back again to tell of their adventures--not in real life. And the
whole thing has been unnatural because that cat and I are both able to
talk your language, and to understand the words you say."
"And so can the nine tiny piglets," added Eureka. "Don't forget them,
for I may have to eat them, after all."
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald: Wilson's body. "He says he knows the car that did it . . . it was a yellow
car."
Some dim impulse moved the policeman to look suspiciously at Tom.
"And what color's your car?"
"It's a blue car, a coupe."
"We've come straight from New York," I said.
Some one who had been driving a little behind us confirmed this, and
the policeman turned away.
"Now, if you'll let me have that name again correct----" Picking up
Wilson like a doll, Tom carried him into the office, set him down in a
chair, and came back.
The Great Gatsby |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: Gazer, Eyebright, Much, Force, Trooper, Bustle, Bubbler, Rockdove,
Stubborn, Yelp, Killer, Pele-mele, Strongboy, Sky, Sunbeam, Bodkin,
Wistful, Gnome, Tracks, Dash.[8]
[7] Cf. Arrian, xxxi. 2; Oppian, "Cyn," i. 443; ap. Schneid.
[8] The following is Xenophon's list:--
{Psukhe} = Soul
{Thumos} = Spirit
{Porpax} = Hasp of shield
{Sturax} = Spike of spear at the butt end
{Logkhe} = Lance
{Lokhos} = Ambush, or "Company"
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