| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Travels and Researches in South Africa by Dr. David Livingstone: formerly alight@mercury.interpath.net). To assure a high quality text,
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[Note on text: Italicized words or phrases are CAPITALIZED.
Some obvious errors have been corrected.]
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa.
Also called, Travels and Researches in South Africa;
or, Journeys and Researches in South Africa.
By David Livingstone [British (Scot) Missionary and Explorer--1813-1873.]
David Livingstone was born in Scotland, received his medical degree
from the University of Glasgow, and was sent to South Africa
by the London Missionary Society. Circumstances led him to try to meet
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald: feet and gave his clothes a tentative pat.
"I'm very damn wet!" he said aloud to the sun-dial.
HISTORICAL
The war began in the summer following his freshman year. Beyond a
sporting interest in the German dash for Paris the whole affair
failed either to thrill or interest him. With the attitude he
might have held toward an amusing melodrama he hoped it would be
long and bloody. If it had not continued he would have felt like
an irate ticket-holder at a prize-fight where the principals
refused to mix it up.
That was his total reaction.
This Side of Paradise |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: the bank, he ran forward in the sand. He moved noiselessly, eyes
and ears alert to aid him, and climbed the bank at a point where
a live oak grew.
Warily he peeped out from behind its trunk and swept the plain
for his foe. Nothing was to be seen of him. Slowly and patiently
his eyes again went over the semi-circle before him, for where
death may lurk behind every foot of vegetation, every bump or
hillock, the plainsman leaves as little as may be to chance. No
faintest movement could escape the sheepman's eyes, no least stir
fail to apprise his ears. Yet for many minutes he waited in vain,
and the delay told him that he had to do with a trained hunter
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