| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain: "I dono. But they've GOT to do it. Hermits always
do. You'd have to do that if you was a hermit."
"Dern'd if I would," said Huck.
"Well, what would you do?"
"I dono. But I wouldn't do that."
"Why, Huck, you'd HAVE to. How'd you get around
it?"
"Why, I just wouldn't stand it. I'd run away."
"Run away! Well, you WOULD be a nice old slouch
of a hermit. You'd be a disgrace."
The Red-Handed made no response, being better
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tik-Tok of Oz by L. Frank Baum: and to assist the Clockwork Man to his feet.
"Ma-ny thanks!" said Tik-Tok. "Where is the
wicked King who want-ed to melt me in a cru-ci-
ble?"
"He has gone, and gone for good," answered
Polychrome, who had managed to squeeze into the
room beside the dragon and had witnessed the
occurrences with much interest. "But I wonder
where Betsy Bobbin and Hank can be, and if any
harm has befallen them."
"We must search the cavern until we find them,"
Tik-Tok of Oz |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson: and hastily did Master Francis scramble in, and was most
joyfully hauled up, and shot out, blinking and tottering, but
once more a free man, into the blessed sun and wind. Now or
never is the time for verses! Such a happy revolution would
turn the head of a stocking-weaver, and set him jingling
rhymes. And so - after a voyage to Paris, where he finds
Montigny and De Cayeux clattering, their bones upon the
gibbet, and his three pupils roystering in Paris streets,
"with their thumbs under their girdles," - down sits Master
Francis to write his LARGE TESTAMENT, and perpetuate his name
in a sort of glorious ignominy.
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