| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Rinkitink In Oz by L. Frank Baum: pleasant person, although he was somewhat reserved and
dignified.
Ah, but it was a great feast that Ozma served in her
gorgeous banquet hall that night and everyone was as
happy as could be. The Shaggy Man was there, and so was
Jack Pumpkinhead and the Tin Woodman and Cap'n Bill.
Beside Princess Dorothy sat Tiny Trot and Betsy Bobbin,
and the three little girls were almost as sweet to look
upon as was Ozma, who sat at the head of her table and
outshone all her guests in loveliness.
King Rinkitink was delighted with the quaint people
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin: more than twenty times as much. They are not throw
together into irregular piles, but are spread out into leve
sheets or great streams. It is not possible to ascertain thei
thickness, but the water of small streamlets can be hear
trickling through the stones many feet below the surface
The actual depth is probably great, because the crevice
between the lower fragments must long ago have been fille
up with sand. The width of these sheets of stones varie
from a few hundred feet to a mile; but the peaty soil dail
encroaches on the borders, and even forms islets whereve
a few fragments happen to lie close together. In a valle
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Little Rivers by Henry van Dyke: stones. Give him the coup de grace at once, for his own sake as
well as for ours. And now look at him, as he lies there on the
green leaves. Broad back; small head tapering to a point; clean,
shining sides with a few black spots on them; it is a fish fresh-
run from the sea, in perfect condition, and that is the reason why
he has given such good sport.
We must try for another before we go back. Again fortune favours
us, and at eleven o'clock we pole up the river to the camp with two
good salmon in the canoe. Hardly have we laid them away in the
ice-box, when Favonius comes dropping down from Patapedia with
three fish, one of them a twenty-four pounder. And so the
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