| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Eugenie Grandet by Honore de Balzac: daughter of a great lord? Charles has no family. Oh, my unhappy
son! my son! Listen, Grandet! I implore nothing for myself,--
besides, your property may not be large enough to carry a mortgage
of three millions,--but for my son! Brother, my suppliant hands
are clasped as I think of you; behold them! Grandet, I confide my
son to you in dying, and I look at the means of death with less
pain as I think that you will be to him a father. He loved me
well, my Charles; I was good to him, I never thwarted him; he will
not curse me. Ah, you see! he is gentle, he is like his mother, he
will cause you no grief. Poor boy! accustomed to all the
enjoyments of luxury, he knows nothing of the privations to which
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London: wait with me till it blows over. They'll forget all about you in
a month or less, what of stampeding to York and what not, and you
can hit the trail under their noses and they won't bother. I've
got my own ideas of justice. When I ran after you, out of the El
Dorado and along the beach, it wasn't to catch you or give you up.
My ideas are my own, and that's not one of them."
He ceased as the murderer drew a prayer-book from his pocket.
With the aurora borealis glimmering yellow in the northeast, heads
bared to the frost and naked hands grasping the sacred book,
Fortune La Pearle swore him to the words he had spoken--an oath
which Uri Bram never intended breaking, and never broke.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Emerald City of Oz by L. Frank Baum: real form was even Roquat did not know.
Through the arches leading into the vast series of caverns that lay
beyond the throne room of King Roquat could be seen ranks upon ranks
of the invaders--thousands of Phanfasms, Growleywogs and Whimsies
standing in serried lines, while behind them were massed the thousands
upon thousands of General Guph's own army of Nomes.
"Listen!" whispered Ozma. "I think we can hear what they are saying."
So they kept still and listened.
"Is all ready?" demanded the First and Foremost, haughtily.
"The tunnel is finally completed," replied General Guph.
"How long will it take us to march to the Emerald City?" asked the
The Emerald City of Oz |
