| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tin Woodman of Oz by L. Frank Baum: "Will you accompany me on this errand?" asked the Tin
Emperor.
"Of course," said the Scarecrow.
"And will you take me along?" pleaded Woot the
Wanderer in an eager voice.
"To be sure," said the Tin Woodman, "if you care to
join our party. It was you who first told me it was my
duty to find and marry Nimmie Amee, and I'd like you to
know that Nick Chopper, the Tin Emperor of the Winkies,
is a man who never shirks his duty, once it is pointed
out to him."
The Tin Woodman of Oz |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: when life comes to be faced. Still, being now in Petersburg, he
considered it his duty to do all he had intended, and he resolved
next day, after consulting Bogotyreff, to act on his advice and
see the person on whom the case of the sectarians depended.
He got out the sectarians' petition from his portfolio, and began
reading it over, when there was a knock at his door, and a
footman came in with a message from the Countess Katerina
Ivanovna, who asked him to come up and have a cup of tea with
her.
Nekhludoff said he would come at once, and having put the papers
back into the portfolio, he went up to his aunt's. He looked out
Resurrection |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Cousin Betty by Honore de Balzac: "All I want is to crow over Josepha; and it is all the same to me
whether I have a Mignard or a Raphael!--That thief had on such pearls
this evening!--you would sell your soul for them."
Cydalise, Montes, and Madame Nourrisson got into a hackney coach that
was waiting at the door. Madame Nourrisson whispered to the driver the
address of a house in the same block as the Italian Opera House, which
they could have reached in five or six minutes from the Rue Saint-
Georges; but Madame Nourrisson desired the man to drive along the Rue
le Peletier, and to go very slowly, so as to be able to examine the
carriages in waiting.
"Brazilian," said the old woman, "look out for your angel's carriage
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