| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: a little to the rear, lay the fresh troops that he had been
holding in readiness against this very moment. As he gal-
loped across the plain, his staff at his heels, shrapnel burst
about them. Von der Tann spurred to his side.
"Sire," he cried, "it is unnecessary that you take such
grave risks. Your staff is ready and willing to perform such
service that you may be preserved to your people and your
throne."
"I believe the men fight better when they think their king
is watching them," said the American simply.
"I know it, sire," replied Von der Tann, "but even so,
The Mad King |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Magic of Oz by L. Frank Baum: "I don't know," admitted the Kalidah. "But when they DO come, you
can't escape them."
"If they hold off long enough, I'll have my raft ready," said Cap'n Bill.
"What are you going to do with a raft?" inquired the beast.
"We're goin' over to that island, to get the Magic Flower."
The huge beast looked at him in surprise a moment, and then it began
to laugh. The laugh was a good deal like a roar, and it had a cruel
and derisive sound, but it was a laugh nevertheless.
"Good!" said the Kalidah. "Good! Very good! I'm glad you're going
to get the Magic Flower. But what will you do with it?"
"We're going to take it to Ozma, as a present on her birthday."
The Magic of Oz |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: [31] Al. "unceasingly tearing along, around, and about it."
The majority of these defects are due to natural disposition, though
some must be assigned no doubt to want of scientific training. In
either case such hounds are useless, and may well deter the keenest
sportsman from the hunting field.[32]
[32] Or, "Naturally, dogs like these damp the sportsman's ardour, and
indeed are enough to sicken him altogether with the chase."
The characters, bodily and other, exhibited by the finer specimens of
the same breed,[33] I will now set forth.
[33] Or, "The features, points, qualities, whether physical or other,
which characterise the better indidivuals." But what does Xenophon
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