| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Magic of Oz by L. Frank Baum: The Goose looked up and saw him.
"You've bungled things in a dreadful way!" exclaimed the Goose.
"Why did you do it?"
"Because I wanted to," answered Kiki. "You acted as if I was your
slave, and I wanted to show these forest people that I am more
powerful than you."
The Goose hissed softly, but Kiki did not hear that.
Old Ruggedo quickly recovered his wits and muttered to himself:
"This boy is the goose, although it is I who wear the goose's shape.
I will be gentle with him now, and fierce with him when I have him in
my power." Then he said aloud to Kiki:
The Magic of Oz |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Virginian by Owen Wister: things of day by day that make roughness or smoothness for folks
tied together so awful close. Mrs. Taylor hyeh--she don't know
anything better than Taylor does. She don't want anything he
can't give her. Her friends will do for him and his for her. And
when I dreamed of you in my home--" he closed his eyes and drew a
long breath. At last he looked at her again. "This is no country
for a lady. Will yu' forget and forgive the bothering I have
done?"
"Oh!" cried Molly. "Oh!" And she put her hands to her eyes. She
had risen and stood with her face covered.
"I surely had to tell you this all out, didn't I?" said the
The Virginian |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Several Works by Edgar Allan Poe: every twenty or thirty yards, and at each turn a novel effect. To
the right and left, in the middle of each wall, a tall and narrow
Gothic window looked out upon a closed corridor which pursued the
windings of the suite. These windows were of stained glass whose
colour varied in accordance with the prevailing hue of the
decorations of the chamber into which it opened. That at the
eastern extremity was hung, for example in blue--and vividly blue
were its windows. The second chamber was purple in its ornaments
and tapestries, and here the panes were purple. The third was
green throughout, and so were the casements. The fourth was
furnished and lighted with orange--the fifth with white--the sixth
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