| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from At the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs: They marched directly across the arena toward the rocks upon
the opposite side, where, spreading their bat-like wings,
they rose above the high wall of the pit, settling down
upon the bowlders above. These were the reserved seats,
the boxes of the elect.
Reptiles that they are, the rough surface of a great stone
is to them as plush as upholstery to us. Here they lolled,
blinking their hideous eyes, and doubtless conversing with
one another in their sixth-sense- fourth-dimension language.
For the first time I beheld their queen. She differed
from the others in no feature that was appreciable
At the Earth's Core |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tin Woodman of Oz by L. Frank Baum: "I can't tell, for the parts had no tags on them and
one heart looks much like another. After the body was
completed, I glued two fine legs and feet onto it. One
leg was Nick Chopper's and one was Captain Fyter's and,
finding one leg longer than the other, I trimmed it
down to make them match. I was much disappointed to
find that I had but one arm. There was an extra leg in
the barrel, but I could find only one arm. Having glued
this onto the body, I was ready for the head, and I had
some difficulty in making up my mind which head to use.
Finally I shut my eyes and reached out my hand toward
The Tin Woodman of Oz |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: Quae omnia ab his diligenter ad diem facta sunt. Ipse Diviciacum Haeduum
magnopere cohortatus docet quanto opere rei publicae comnlunisque salutis
intersit manus hostium distineri, ne cum tanta multitudine uno tempore
confligendum sit. Id fieri posse, si suas copias Haedui in fines
Bellovacorum introduxerint et eorum agros populari coeperint. His
mandatis eum a se dimittit. Postquam omnes Belgarum copias in unum locum
coactas ad se venire vidit neque iam longe abesse ab iis quos miserat
exploratoribus et ab Remis cognovit, flumen Axonam, quod est in extremis
Remorum finibus, exercitum traducere maturavit atque ibi castra posuit.
Quae res et latus ullum castrorum ripis fluminis muniebat et post eum quae
erant tuta ab hostibus reddebat et commeatus ab Remis reliquisque
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