| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Heroes by Charles Kingsley: by his side.
But Medeia the dark witch-woman had been watching him all the
while. She saw how AEgeus turned red and pale when the lad
said that he came from Troezene. She saw, too, how his heart
was opened toward Theseus; and how Theseus bore himself
before all the sons of Pallas, like a lion among a pack of
curs. And she said to herself, 'This youth will be master
here; perhaps he is nearer to AEgeus already than mere fancy.
At least the Pallantilds will have no chance by the side of
such as he.'
Then she went back into her chamber modestly, while Theseus
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Beasts of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: But if Gust was afraid of the jungle he was far more afraid
of Kai Shang and Momulla. The dangers of the jungle were
more or less problematical, while the danger that menaced
him at the hands of his companions was a perfectly well-
known quantity, which might be expressed in terms of a few
inches of cold steel, or the coil of a light rope. He had seen
Kai Shang garrotte a man at Pai-sha in a dark alleyway back
of Loo Kotai's place. He feared the rope, therefore, more
than he did the knife of the Maori; but he feared them both
too much to remain within reach of either. Therefore he chose
the pitiless jungle.
The Beasts of Tarzan |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Allan Quatermain by H. Rider Haggard: of swaggering insolence that is perfectly indescribable, and
yet which one could not but admire, seeing that he was surrounded
by enemies.
'Say on,' said Mr Mackenzie.
'I am the "Lygonani" [war captain] of a part of the Masai of
the Guasa Amboni. I and my men followed these three white men,'
and he pointed to Sir Henry, Good, and myself, 'but they were
too clever for us, and escaped hither. We have a quarrel with
them, and are going to kill them.'
'Are you, my friend?' said I to myself.
'In following these men we this morning caught two black men,
Allan Quatermain |
