| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Magic of Oz by L. Frank Baum: I'm sure you could never find the place alone. It has always been
hidden from the Oz people."
"But you, with your fine pink brains, could find it again, I
s'pose," remarked Dorothy.
"Yes; and if you want that Magic Flower for Ozma, I'll go with you
and show you the way."
"That's lovely of you!" declared Dorothy. "Trot and Cap'n Bill will
go with you, for this is to be their birthday present to Ozma. While
you're gone I'll have to find something else to give her."
"All right. Come on, then, Cap'n," said the Glass Cat, starting to
move away.
The Magic of Oz |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Breaking Point by Mary Roberts Rinehart: since."
David was gripping the arms of his chair with both hands, but he
forced himself to calmness.
"I'll go to Norada at once," he said. "Get a time-table, Harrison,
and ring for the valet."
"Not on your life you won't. I'm here to do that, when I've got
something to go on. Wheeler thought you might have heard from him.
If you hadn't, I was to get all the information I could and then
start. Elizabeth's almost crazy. We wired the chief of police
of Norada yesterday."
"Yes!" David said thickly. "Trust your friends to make every
The Breaking Point |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lysis by Plato: That friends are not necessarily either like or unlike, is also a truth
confirmed by experience. But the use of the terms 'like' or 'good' is too
strictly limited; Socrates has allowed himself to be carried away by a sort
of eristic or illogical logic against which no definition of friendship
would be able to stand. In the course of the argument he makes a
distinction between property and accident which is a real contribution to
the science of logic. Some higher truths appear through the mist. The
manner in which the field of argument is widened, as in the Charmides and
Laches by the introduction of the idea of knowledge, so here by the
introduction of the good, is deserving of attention. The sense of the
inter-dependence of good and evil, and the allusion to the possibility of
Lysis |
