| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Kidnapped Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum: really a bad person, you know; and I believe I accomplish a great deal
of good in the world."
With this he opened a back door that let in a flood of sunshine, and
Santa Claus sniffed the fresh air gratefully.
"I bear no malice," said he to the Daemon, in a gentle voice; "and I
am sure the world would be a dreary place without you. So, good
morning, and a Merry Christmas to you!"
With these words he stepped out to greet the bright morning, and a
moment later he was trudging along, whistling softly to himself, on
his way to his home in the Laughing Valley.
Marching over the snow toward the mountain was a vast army, made up of
A Kidnapped Santa Claus |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic: from church affairs. Alice too, seemed strangely
disinclined to conversation. The husband knew her face
and its varying moods so well that he could see she
was laboring under some very powerful and deep emotion.
No doubt it was the sermon, the oratorical swing of which
still tingled in his own blood, that had so affected her.
If she had said so, it would have pleased him, but she
said nothing.
After dinner, Brother Soulsby disappeared in his bedroom,
with the remark that he guessed he would lie down awhile.
Sister Soulsby put on her bonnet, and, explaining that she
The Damnation of Theron Ware |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas: filled."
"But it is one of the principal military appointments in the
king's household."
"Monsieur de Treville was but a younger son of a simple
Gascon family, like me, madame; he occupied that post for
twenty years."
"You have an answer ready for everything," replied the
queen, and she took from her bureau a document, which she
filled up and signed.
"Undoubtedly, madame," said D'Artagnan, taking the document
and bowing, "this is a noble reward; but everything in the
Twenty Years After |
