| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from O Pioneers! by Willa Cather: ment."
Alexandra closed her door, and Emil sank
down on the old slat lounge and sat with his
head in his hands. When his sister came out, he
looked up, not knowing whether the interval
had been short or long, and he was surprised to
see that the room had grown quite dark. That
was just as well; it would be easier to talk if he
were not under the gaze of those clear, deliber-
ate eyes, that saw so far in some directions and
O Pioneers! |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Magic of Oz by L. Frank Baum: "That's queer," remarked the Glass Cat. "There were no toadstools
there when I left them."
"What a lovely flower!" cried Dorothy in rapture, as her gaze fell
on the Magic Plant.
"Never mind the Flower, just now," advised the Wizard. "The most
important thing is to rescue our friends."
By this time they had arrived at a place just opposite the Magic
Isle, and now both Trot and Cap'n Bill saw the arrival of their
friends and called to them for help.
"How are you?" shouted the Wizard, putting his hands to his mouth
so they could hear him better across the water.
The Magic of Oz |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: found in the black sealskin bag, stained with - with blood?"
"Blood," she said dully. "You mean that you found the broken end?
And then - you had my gold pocket-book, and you saw the necklace in
it, and you - must have thought - "
"I didn't think anything," I hastened to assure her. "I tell you,
Alison, I never thought of anything but that you were unhappy, and
that I had no right to help you. God knows, I thought you didn't
want me to help you."
She held out her hand to me and I took it between both of mine. No
word of love had passed between us, but I felt that she knew and
understood. It was one of the moments that come seldom in a
The Man in Lower Ten |
