| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Kidnapped Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum: will receive from their parents, and how they will flock to our Caves
of Selfishness, and Envy, and Hatred, and Malice! We have done a
mighty clever thing, we Daemons of the Caves!"
Now it so chanced that on this Christmas Eve the good Santa Claus had
taken with him in his sleigh Nuter the Ryl, Peter the Knook, Kilter
the Pixie, and a small fairy named Wisk--his four favorite assistants.
These little people he had often found very useful in helping him to
distribute his gifts to the children, and when their master was so
suddenly dragged from the sleigh they were all snugly tucked
underneath the seat, where the sharp wind could not reach them.
The tiny immortals knew nothing of the capture of Santa Claus until
A Kidnapped Santa Claus |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith: candlesticks, and there's a fire-screen, and here's a pair of
brazen-nosed bellows; perhaps you may take a fancy to them?
MARLOW. Bring me your bill, sir; bring me your bill, and let's make no
more words about it.
HARDCASTLE. There are a set of prints, too. What think you of the
Rake's Progress, for your own apartment?
MARLOW. Bring me your bill, I say; and I'll leave you and your
infernal house directly.
HARDCASTLE. Then there's a mahogany table that you may see your own
face in.
MARLOW. My bill, I say.
She Stoops to Conquer |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Village Rector by Honore de Balzac: an average, ten feet above the plain. The first important point was to
estimate the amount of water flowing through the Gabou, and to make
sure whether or not the slopes of the valley allowed any to escape in
other directions.
Veronique gave Farrabesche a horse, and directed him to accompany the
engineer and to explain to him everything he had himself noticed.
After several days' careful exploration, Gerard found that the base of
the two parallel slopes was sufficiently solid, though different in
composition, to hold the water, allowing none to escape. During the
month of January, which was rainy, he estimated the quantity of water
flowing through the Gabou. This quantity, added to that of three
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