| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tin Woodman of Oz by L. Frank Baum: Morning found them still unsuccessful in the quest
and as soon as it was daylight Woot's bed suddenly
disappeared, and he dropped to the floor with a thump
that quickly wakened him. And after a time the Giantess
came from her bedroom, wearing another dress that was
quite as elaborate as the one in which she had been
attired the evening before, and also wearing the pretty
lace apron. Having seated herself in a chair, she said:
"I'm hungry; so I'll have breakfast at once."
She clapped her hands together and instantly the
table appeared before her, spread with snowy linen
The Tin Woodman of Oz |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Georgics by Virgil: But ere our metal cleave
An unknown surface, heed we to forelearn
The winds and varying temper of the sky,
The lineal tilth and habits of the spot,
What every region yields, and what denies.
Here blithelier springs the corn, and here the grape,
There earth is green with tender growth of trees
And grass unbidden. See how from Tmolus comes
The saffron's fragrance, ivory from Ind,
From Saba's weakling sons their frankincense,
Iron from the naked Chalybs, castor rank
Georgics |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: that is about the roll-call of the crew. The aunt brings up the
two sisters; the cure comes and teaches the boys Latin. Boiled
chestnuts are oftener on the table than white bread. Papa makes a
suit of clothes last a long while; if mamma has a different dress
winter and summer, it is about as much as she has; the sisters
manage as best they can. I know all about it; I have lived in the
south.
"That is how things are at home. They send you twelve hundred
francs a year, and the whole property only brings in three
thousand francs all told. We have a cook and a manservant; papa
is a baron, and we must keep up appearances. Then we have our
Father Goriot |
