| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Lost Princess of Oz by L. Frank Baum: Ozma? Tell me truly!"
Button-Bright laughed.
"You're getting rattled, Dorothy," he replied.
"Nothing ever enchants ME. If I were Ozma, do you think I'd have
tumbled into that hole?"
"Anyhow," said the Wizard, "Ozma would never try to deceive her
friends or prevent them from recognizing her in whatever form she
happened to be. The puzzle is still a puzzle, so let us go on to the
wicker castle and question the magician himself. Since it was he who
stole our Ozma, Ugu is the one who must tell us where to find her."
CHAPTER 21
The Lost Princess of Oz |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from My Antonia by Willa Cather: On Sundays she helped her mother make garden or sewed all day.
Grandfather was pleased with Antonia. When we complained of her,
he only smiled and said, `She will help some fellow get ahead
in the world.'
Nowadays Tony could talk of nothing but the prices of things, or how
much she could lift and endure. She was too proud of her strength.
I knew, too, that Ambrosch put upon her some chores a girl ought
not to do, and that the farm-hands around the country joked
in a nasty way about it. Whenever I saw her come up the furrow,
shouting to her beasts, sunburned, sweaty, her dress open at the neck,
and her throat and chest dust-plastered, I used to think of the tone
My Antonia |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King Lear by William Shakespeare: you
are going, to a most festinate preparation. We are bound to
the
like. Our posts shall be swift and intelligent betwixt us.
Farewell, dear sister; farewell, my Lord of Gloucester.
Enter [Oswald the] Steward.
How now? Where's the King?
Osw. My Lord of Gloucester hath convey'd him hence.
Some five or six and thirty of his knights,
Hot questrists after him, met him at gate;
Who, with some other of the lord's dependants,
King Lear |
