| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Rinkitink In Oz by L. Frank Baum: but his own plight was so helpless that he was unable
to aid them. Fortunately the boy's mother, Queen Garee,
was not among these slaves, for Queen Cor had placed
her in the royal dairy to make butter.
"Why do you refuse to work?" demanded Cor in a harsh
voice, as the slaves from Pingaree stood before her,
trembling and with downcast eyes.
"Because we lack strength to perform the tasks your
overseers demand," answered one of the women.
"Then you shall be whipped until your strength
returns!" exclaimed the Queen, and turning to Inga, she
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Where There's A Will by Mary Roberts Rinehart: poked at it to see if it was done.
"Damn!" he said, and dropped it.
Mrs. Dick sat on the cot rolling up a pink ribbon and looked at
him.
"If you want to know exactly my reason for insisting on moving
to-night, I'll tell you," she said, paying no attention to me.
"It is your disposition."
He didn't say anything, but he put his foot on the potato and
smashed it.
"If I had to be shut in here with you one more day," she went on,
"I'd hate you."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: his dialect. I knew it had something to do with the church.
He went on, "And you consate that all these steans be aboon
folk that be haped here, snod an' snog?" I assented again.
"Then that be just where the lie comes in. Why, there be
scores of these laybeds that be toom as old Dun's `baccabox
on Friday night."
He nudged one of his companions, and they all laughed.
"And, my gog! How could they be otherwise? Look at that one,
the aftest abaft the bier-bank, read it!"
I went over and read, "Edward Spencelagh, master mariner,
murdered by pirates off the coast of Andres, April, 1854, age 30."
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