| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Market-Place by Harold Frederic: and mouth of steel. Thorpe kept a grip on the side of
the trap, and had only a modified pleasure in the drive.
The road along which they sped seemed, in the gathering dusk,
uncomfortably narrow, and he speculated a good deal
as to how frightened the two mutes behind him must be.
But silence was such a law of their life that, though he
strained his ears, he could not so much as hear them
sigh or gasp.
It seemed but a very few minutes before they turned off,
with but the most fleeting diminution of pace, upon a
private road, which speedily developed into an avenue
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Emerald City of Oz by L. Frank Baum: "Very well," agreed Dorothy. "Let's see--the camp must be over this way."
She had probably made a mistake about that, for after they had gone
far enough to have reached the camp they still found themselves in the
thick of the woods. So the little girl stopped short and looked
around her, and Toto glanced up into her face with his bright little
eyes and wagged his tail as if he knew something was wrong. He
couldn't tell much about direction himself, because he had spent his
time prowling among the bushes and running here and there; nor had
Billina paid much attention to where they were going, being interested
in picking bugs from the moss as they passed along. The Yellow Hen
now turned one eye up toward the little girl and asked:
The Emerald City of Oz |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe: In the middle of their distress, when the condition of the city of
London was so truly calamitous, just then it pleased God - as it were
by His immediate hand to disarm this enemy; the poison was taken
out of the sting. It was wonderful; even the physicians themselves
were surprised at it. Wherever they visited they found their patients
better; either they had sweated kindly, or the tumours were broke, or
the carbuncles went down and the inflammations round them changed
colour, or the fever was gone, or the violent headache was assuaged,
or some good symptom was in the case; so that in a few days
everybody was recovering, whole families that were infected and
down, that had ministers praying with them, and expected death every
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