| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Glinda of Oz by L. Frank Baum: found that it seemed to spread in a regular circle. On
and on they went until finally Ozma said they had
returned to the exact spot from which they had started.
"Here is a handkerchief you dropped when we were here
before," she said to Dorothy.
"In that case, they must have built the web behind
us, after we walked into the trap," exclaimed the
little girl.
"True," agreed Ozma, "an enemy has tried to imprison
us."
"And they did it, too," said Dorothy. "I wonder who
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Frances Waldeaux by Rebecca Davis: Chicagoans and New Yorkers; and have the couriers and
portiers turn the flashlights on Europe for me, as if it
were a burlesque show."
"Now, that's just what I like!" said Perry. "I always go
to the houses where the royalties put up. I like to
order better dishes and give bigger tips than they do.
They don't know Jem Perry from Adam, but it's my way of
waving the American flag."
"I am afraid we have no such patriotic motive," said
Clara. "My girls seem to care for nothing now but art.
We have made this little inn our headquarters in the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: remember that this has actually been the state of things in what
are now the fairest parts of the globe), cannot fail to deepen
whatever elements of melancholy there may be already in the
artist's disposition.
The operation of all these causes will be enhanced by that very
peculiarity of the artist which constitutes his talent. For,
according to the definitions above given, that which makes him an
artist is his capacity for seizing upon the essential
characteristics and the salient traits of surrounding objects and
events. Other men see things in part fragmentarily; he catches
the spirit of the ensemble. And in this way he will very likely
The Unseen World and Other Essays |
