| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tom Sawyer, Detective by Mark Twain: you little devil! You think you are going to work a body
up till his mouth's a-watering and stop there? What WAS
it he done?"
That was it, you see--he just done it to get an "effect";
you couldn't 'a' pulled him off of that platform
with a yoke of oxen.
"Oh, it wasn't anything much," he says. "I seen him
looking a little excited when he found Uncle Silas was
actuly fixing to hang himself for a murder that warn't
ever done; and he got more and more nervous and worried,
I a-watching him sharp but not seeming to look at him--
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: she eluded his raking grasp, and as he hurtled against
the bole of her sanctuary, the girl drew herself into
the safety of the branches above his reach.
For some time the lion paced, growling and moaning,
beneath the tree in which Jane Clayton crouched,
panting and trembling. The girl was a prey to the
nervous reaction from the frightful ordeal through
which she had so recently passed, and in her
overwrought state it seemed that never again should she
dare descend to the ground among the fearsome dangers
which infested the broad stretch of jungle that she
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: ever tracked down. It might mean the end of all our local work
-- and perhaps prison for both West and me. I did not like those
rumours of a fight which were floating about. After the clock
had struck three the moon shone in my eyes, but I turned over
without rising to pull down the shade. Then came the steady rattling
at the back door.
I lay still and somewhat dazed, but before
long heard West’s rap on my door. He was clad in dressing-gown
and slippers, and had in his hands a revolver and an electric
flashlight. From the revolver I knew that he was thinking more
of the crazed Italian than of the police.
Herbert West: Reanimator |
