| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Road to Oz by L. Frank Baum: dullness when contrasted with Ozma's bewitching face, and it has often
been said by those who know that no other ruler in all the world can
ever hope to equal the gracious charm of her manner.
Everything about Ozma attracted one, and she inspired love and the
sweetest affection rather than awe or ordinary admiration. Dorothy
threw her arms around her little friend and hugged and kissed her
rapturously, and Toto barked joyfully and Button-Bright smiled a happy
smile and consented to sit on the soft cushions close beside the Princess.
"Why didn't you send me word you were going to have a birthday party?"
asked the little Kansas girl, when the first greetings were over.
"Didn't I?" asked Ozma, her pretty eyes dancing with merriment.
The Road to Oz |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: again. You're a born killer. I know every bad man on this
frontier. More than one of them have told me that something
exploded in their brain, and when sense came back there lay
another dead man. It's not so with me. I've done a little
shooting, too, but I never wanted to kill another man just to
rid myself of the last one. My dead men don't sit on my chest
at night. That's the gun-fighter's trouble. He's crazy. He has
to kill a new man--he's driven to it to forget the last one."
"But I'm no gun-fighter," protested Duane. "Circumstances made
me--"
"No doubt," interrupted Bland, with a laugh. "Circumstances
The Lone Star Ranger |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Prince by Nicolo Machiavelli: sufficient to produce this effect. And short-sighted writers admire
his deeds from one point of view and from another condemn the
principal cause of them. That it is true his other virtues would not
have been sufficient for him may be proved by the case of Scipio, that
most excellent man, not only of his own times but within the memory of
man, against whom, nevertheless, his army rebelled in Spain; this
arose from nothing but his too great forbearance, which gave his
soldiers more license than is consistent with military discipline. For
this he was upbraided in the Senate by Fabius Maximus, and called the
corrupter of the Roman soldiery. The Locrians were laid waste by a
legate of Scipio, yet they were not avenged by him, nor was the
The Prince |
