| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg by Mark Twain: "I find I have read them all."
Faint with joy and surprise, the couple sank into their seats, and
Mary whispered:
"Oh, bless God, we are saved!--he has lost ours--I wouldn't give
this for a hundred of those sacks!"
The house burst out with its "Mikado" travesty, and sang it three
times with ever-increasing enthusiasm, rising to its feet when it
reached for the third time the closing line -
"But the Symbols are here, you bet!"
and finishing up with cheers and a tiger for "Hadleyburg purity and
our eighteen immortal representatives of it."
The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Lost Princess of Oz by L. Frank Baum: well, and you couldn't be expected to know I was inside the peach pit.
Indeed, I feared I would remain a captive much longer than I did, for
Ugu is a bold and clever magician, and he had hidden me very
securely."
"You were in a fine peach," said Button-Bright, "the best I ever ate."
"The magician was foolish to make the peach so tempting," remarked the
Wizard, "but Ozma would lend beauty to any transformation."
"How did you manage to conquer Ugu the Shoemaker?"
inquired the girl Ruler of Oz.
Dorothy started to tell the story, and Trot helped her, and
Button-Bright wanted to relate it in his own way, and the Wizard tried
The Lost Princess of Oz |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: cynical words began to ring in his ears.
"Seat yourself there," said the Baroness, pointing to a low chair
beside the fire. "I have a difficult letter to write," she added.
"Tell me what to say."
"Say nothing," Eugene answered her. "Put the bills in an
envelope, direct it, and send it by your maid."
"Why, you are a love of a man," she said. "Ah! see what it is to
have been well brought up. That is the Beauseant through and
through," she went on, smiling at him.
"She is charming," thought Eugene, more and more in love. He
looked round him at the room; there was an ostentatious character
Father Goriot |
