| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Rinkitink In Oz by L. Frank Baum: this damp hole ever since, with my head just above the
water. It's lucky the well was no deeper, for had my
head been under water, instead of above it -- hoo, hoo,
hoo, keek, eek! -- under instead of over, you know --
why, then I wouldn't be talking to you now! Ha, hoo,
hee!" And the well dismally echoed: "Ha, hoo, hee!"
which you must imagine was a laugh half merry and half
sad.
"I'm awfully sorry," cried the boy, in answer. "I
wonder you have the heart to laugh at all. But how am I
to get you out?"
Rinkitink In Oz |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Schoolmistress and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov: on my knees, and say: 'Anna Filippovna!' Anna is a good sort,
she'll understand. . . . And we'll bring him up. . . . If it's a
boy we'll call him Vladimir, and if it's a girl we'll call her
Anna! Anyway, it will be a comfort in our old age."
And he did as he determined. Weeping and almost faint with shame
and terror, full of hope and vague rapture, he went into his
bungalow, went up to his wife, and fell on his knees before her.
"Anna Filippovna!" he said with a sob, and he laid the baby on
the floor. "Hear me before you punish. . . . I have sinned! This
is my child. . . . You remember Agnia? Well, it was the devil
drove me to it. . . ."
The Schoolmistress and Other Stories |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: I thought he started and turned pale; that the servants would
not obey me; that the stranger's name was Madam Mendizabal,
and, at that, he seemed to me both troubled and relieved;
that she had insulted me, treated me as a slave (and here my
father's brow began to darken), threatened to buy me at a
sale, and questioned my own servants before my face; and
that, at last, finding myself quite helpless and exposed to
these intolerable liberties, I had fled from the house in
terror, indignation, and amazement.
'Teresa,' said my father, with singular gravity of voice, 'I
must make to-day a call upon your courage; much must be told
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