| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells: that is only just beginning to be aware of what it is--and
what it might be."
"Exactly," said the doctor. "Good."
He went on eagerly. "That is precisely how I see it. You and
I are just particles in the tarnish, as you call it, who are
becoming dimly awake to what we are, to what we have in
common. Only a very few of us have got as far even as this.
These others here, for example . . . ."
He indicated the rest of Maidenhead by a movement.
"Desire, mutual flattery, egotistical dreams, greedy
solicitudes fill them up. They haven't begun to get out of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum: "Are flowers alive?" asked Scraps.
"Yes, of course. And these flowers belong to
the Tin Woodman. So, in order not to offend
him, we must not tread on a single blossom."
"Once," said Dorothy, "the Tin Woodman
stepped on a beetle and killed the little creature.
That made him very unhappy and he cried until
his tears rusted his joints, so he couldn't move
'em."
"What did he do then?" asked Ojo.
"Put oil on them, until the joints worked
The Patchwork Girl of Oz |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare: I promise you, but for your company,
I would haue bin a bed an houre ago
Par. These times of wo, affoord no times to wooe:
Madam goodnight, commend me to your Daughter
Lady. I will, and know her mind early to morrow,
To night, she is mewed vp to her heauinesse
Cap. Sir Paris, I will make a desperate tender
Of my Childes loue: I thinke she will be rul'd
In all respects by me: nay more, I doubt it not.
Wife, go you to her ere you go to bed,
Acquaint her here, of my Sonne Paris Loue,
Romeo and Juliet |
