| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Grimm's Fairy Tales by Brothers Grimm: that they thought she could not live; but they said she should at once
be christened.
So the father sent one of his sons in haste to the spring to get some
water, but the other six ran with him. Each wanted to be first at
drawing the water, and so they were in such a hurry that all let their
pitchers fall into the well, and they stood very foolishly looking at
one another, and did not know what to do, for none dared go home. In
the meantime the father was uneasy, and could not tell what made the
young men stay so long. 'Surely,' said he, 'the whole seven must have
forgotten themselves over some game of play'; and when he had waited
still longer and they yet did not come, he flew into a rage and wished
Grimm's Fairy Tales |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: inference from this alone. From the Emperor Nero to Don Sebastian
of Portugal, there have been many instances of the supposed
reappearance of persons generally believed to be dead. For my own
part, therefore, I am by no means inclined to adopt the
hypothesis of Jeanne's survival, although I have endeavoured to
give it tangible shape and plausible consistency. But the fact
that so much can be said in behalf of a theory running counter
not only to universal tradition, but also to such a vast body of
contemporaneous testimony, should teach us to be circumspect in
holding our opinions, and charitable in our treatment of those
who dissent from them. For those who can discover in the
The Unseen World and Other Essays |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum: "I assure your Majesty that I did not ask to be created," answered Jack.
"Ah! It was the same in my case," said the King, pleasantly. And so, as we
differ from all ordinary people, let us become friends."
"With all my heart!" exclaimed Jack.
"What! Have you a heart?" asked the Scarecrow, surprised.
"No; that was only imaginative -- I might say, a figure of speech," said the
other.
"Well, your most prominent figure seems to be a figure of wood; so I must
beg you to restrain an imagination which, having no brains, you have no
right to exercise," suggested the Scarecrow, warningly.
"To be sure!" said Jack, without in the least comprehending.
The Marvelous Land of Oz |
