| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Rescue by Joseph Conrad: Shaw was checked. For a second the seaman in him instinctively
admitted the claim of the ship.
"The brig. The brig. She's right enough," he mumbled. He had
nothing to say against the brig--not he. She wasn't like the big
ships he was used to, but of her kind the best craft he ever. . .
. And with a brusque return upon himself, he protested that he
had been decoyed on board under false pretences. It was as bad as
being shanghaied when in liquor. It was--upon his soul. And into
a craft next thing to a pirate! That was the name for it or his
own name was not Shaw. He said this glaring owlishly. Lingard,
perfectly still and mute, bore the blows without a sign.
The Rescue |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The War in the Air by H. G. Wells: one was struck by lightning, some of the men saw a third upset,
apparently just for fun. They were going cheap anyhow. Also
we've lost most of our drachenflieger. They just skated off into
the night. No stability in 'em. That's all. We don't know if
we've won or lost. We don't know if we're at war with the
British Empire yet or at peace. Consequently, we daren't get
down. We don't know what we are up to or what we are going to
do. Our Napoleon is alone, forward, and I suppose he's
rearranging his plans. Whether New York was our Moscow or not
remains to be seen. We've had a high old time and murdered no
end of people! War! Noble war! I'm sick of it this morning. I
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: of an automobile horn may affect you -- if you are in front of
the automobile it warns you out of the way, if you are not in
front of it you scarcely notice it. Figuratively Tarzan was
not in front of the automobile -- Numa could not reach him
and Tarzan knew it, so he continued deliberately to choke the
entrance until there was no possibility of Numa's getting out
again. When he was quite through he made a grimace at the
hidden lion beyond the barrier and resumed his way toward
the east. "A man-eater who will eat no more men," he solilo-
quized.
That night Tarzan lay up under an overhanging shelf of
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