| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum: raise grains and fruits and vegetables, while
others chop wood in the forests, or fish in the
rivers, or herd the sheep and the cattle."
"Poor things!" said Scraps.
"I'm not sure they are not happier than the city
people," replied the Shaggy Man. "There's a
freedom and independence in country life that not
even the Emerald City can give one. I know that
lots of the city people would like to get back to
the land. The Scarecrow lives in the country, and
so do the Tin Woodman and Jack Pumpkinhead; yet
The Patchwork Girl of Oz |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: survived her second misfortune; and that intense hope had
burned into belief, if not surety. Upon his return to that
locality, on the occasion of his first visit to the hut, he had
found things just as they had left them, and a poor, faded
piece of ribbon Jennie had used to tie around her bright hair.
No wandering outlaw or traveler had happened upon the lonely
spot, which further endeared it to Duane.
A strange feature of this memory of Jennie was the freshness of
it--the failure of years, toil, strife, death-dealing to dim
it--to deaden the thought of what might have been. He had a
marvelous gift of visualization. He could shut his eyes and see
The Lone Star Ranger |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain: world never to return; and ended by hoping that Joe
would not forget him.
But it transpired that this was a request which Joe
had just been going to make of Tom, and had come
to hunt him up for that purpose. His mother had
whipped him for drinking some cream which he had
never tasted and knew nothing about; it was plain
that she was tired of him and wished him to go; if
she felt that way, there was nothing for him to do but
succumb; he hoped she would be happy, and never
regret having driven her poor boy out into the unfeeling
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
