| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum: "No, you are all wrong," said the little man meekly. "I have
been making believe."
"Making believe!" cried Dorothy. "Are you not a Great Wizard?"
"Hush, my dear," he said. "Don't speak so loud, or you will be
overheard--and I should be ruined. I'm supposed to be a Great Wizard."
"And aren't you?" she asked.
"Not a bit of it, my dear; I'm just a common man."
"You're more than that," said the Scarecrow, in a grieved tone;
"you're a humbug."
"Exactly so!" declared the little man, rubbing his hands
together as if it pleased him. "I am a humbug."
The Wizard of Oz |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from House of Mirth by Edith Wharton: her course in lingering with the Gormers after their return. Nor
was she without pale glimpses of her own world, especially since
the breaking-up of the Newport season had set the social current
once more toward Long Island. Kate Corby, whose tastes
made her as promiscuous as Carry Fisher was rendered by her
necessities, occasionally descended on the Gormers, where, after
a first stare of surprise, she took Lily's presence almost too
much as a matter of course. Mrs. Fisher, too, appearing
frequently in the neighbourhood, drove over to impart her
experiences and give Lily what she called the latest report from
the weather-bureau; and the latter, who had never directly
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: except those only who bear witness for the truth and who do know.
And if thou shouldst ask them who created them they will surely say,
'God!' How then can they lie?
And what he says, 'O Lord, verily, these are a people who do not
believe; shun them then and say, "Peace!" for they at length shall
know!'
THE CHAPTER OF SMOKE
(XLIV. Mecca.)
IN the name of the merciful and compassionate God.
HA MIM. By the perspicuous Book! verily, we have sent it down on a
blessed night;-verily, we had given warning-wherein is decided every
The Koran |
