| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from O Pioneers! by Willa Cather: and brought it back with a jerk,--"so, like a
table-cloth. I get tired of seeing men and horses
going up and down, up and down."
Marie looked up at his defiant figure and her
face clouded. "I wish you weren't so restless,
and didn't get so worked up over things," she
said sadly.
"Thank you," he returned shortly.
O Pioneers! |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Magic of Oz by L. Frank Baum: moment, looking at them sharply from its round black eyes. Then it
said: "Sometimes, when the sun is hot, I grow a toadstool to shelter
me from its rays. Perhaps you could sit on toadstools."
"Well, if they were strong enough, they'd do," answered Cap'n Bill.
"Then, before I do I'll give you a couple," said the Lonesome Duck,
and began waddling about in a small circle. It went around the circle
to the right three times, and then it went around to the left three
times. Then it hopped backward three times and forward three times.
"What are you doing?" asked Trot.
"Don't interrupt. This is an incantation," replied the Lonesome
Duck, but now it began making a succession of soft noises that sounded
The Magic of Oz |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Second Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling: adjusted as a compass-needle, and now instead of listening they
watched. The thin rod quivered a little--the least little jar
in the world; then it vibrated steadily for a few seconds,
came to rest, and vibrated again, this time nodding to another
point of the compass.
"Too soon!" said Kotuko. "Some big floe has broken far away
outside."
The girl pointed at the rod, and shook her head. "It is the big
breaking," she said. "Listen to the ground-ice. It knocks."
When they kneeled this time they heard the most curious muffled
grunts and knockings, apparently under their feet. Sometimes it
The Second Jungle Book |
