| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Rinkitink In Oz by L. Frank Baum: Pearl -- and beginning to put on one of Inga's.
Just then Queen Cor, angry at being made to
wait for her whip with the seven lashes, rushed
into the room to find Inga. Seeing the boy sitting
upon the floor beside Zella, the woman sprang
toward him to beat him with her clenched fists;
but Inga had now slipped on the shoe and the
Queen's blows could not reach his body.
Then Cor espied the whip lying beside Inga and
snatching it up she tried to lash him with it -- all to
no avail.
Rinkitink In Oz |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: On his return he found the Vicomtesse gracious and kindly, as she
had always been to him. They went together to the dining-room,
where the Vicomte was waiting for his wife. In the time of the
Restoration the luxury of the table was carried, as is well
known, to the highest degree, and M. de Beauseant, like many
jaded men of the world, had few pleasures left but those of good
cheer; in this matter, in fact, he was a gourmand of the schools
of Louis XVIII. and of the Duc d'Escars, and luxury was
supplemented by splendor. Eugene, dining for the first time in a
house where the traditions of grandeur had descended through many
generations, had never seen any spectacle like this that now met
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: the first horse-tamer lived, and in what country. And a very
curious, and, to me, a beautiful sight it is, to see those two
noble horses obeying that little boy, whom they could kill with a
single kick.
But, beside all this, there is a question, which ought to be a
curious one to you (for I suspect you cannot answer it)--Why does
the farmer take the trouble to send his cart and horses eight
miles and more, to draw in chalk from Odiham chalk-pit?
Oh, he is going to put it on the land, of course. They are
chalking the bit at the top of the next field, where the copse was
grubbed.
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