| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Contrast by Royall Tyler: to cry, according to you, Mary, is when she is making
choice of him; but I should think that a young
woman's time to cry was when she despaired of
getting one. Why, there was your mother, now: to be
sure, when I popp'd the question to her she did look
a little silly; but when she had once looked down on
her apron-strings, as all modest young women us'd to
do, and drawled out ye-s, she was as brisk and as
merry as a bee.
MARIA
My honoured mother, Sir, had no motive to mel-
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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: has happened, Corporal Waddle?"
"Captives, Your Majesty!" answered the Brown Bear. "Intruders upon
our domain and slanderers of our good name."
"Ah, that's important," answered the voice.
Then from out the hollow trees tumbled a whole regiment of stuffed
bears, some carrying tin swords, some popguns and others long spears
with gay ribbons tied to the handles. There were hundreds of them,
altogether, and they quietly formed a circle around the Frogman and
the Cookie Cook, but kept at a distance and left a large space for the
prisoners to stand in. Presently, this circle parted, and into the
center of it stalked a huge toy bear of a lovely lavender color. He
The Lost Princess of Oz |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: as I stumbled among debris and fragments of every sort.
Then
I came to the ceiling-high mound of debris through which I had
wrenched a scanty passage. My dread at wriggling through again
was infinite, for my first passage had made some noise, and I
now - after seeing those possible prints - dreaded sound above
all things. The case, too, doubled the problem of traversing the
narrow crevice.
But I clambered up the barrier as best I could,
and pushed the case through the aperture ahead of me. Then, torch
in mouth, I scrambled through myself - my back torn as before
Shadow out of Time |
