| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: back
to him the recollections of what had preceded the blow that
had felled him.
Strong in his nostrils was the scent of Numa, the lion, and
against one naked leg he could feel the coat of some animal.
Slowly Tarzan opened his eyes. He was lying on his side and
as he looked down his body, he saw that a great lion stood
straddling him -- a great lion who growled hideously at some-
thing which Tarzan could not see.
With the full return of his senses Tarzan's nose told him
that the beast above him was Numa of the Wamabo pit.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: life he was perfectly able to do so - and he remained thirty
years in the deserts. When he came into civilized society he
declared that the rude existence which he described, had a secret
charm for him which he was unable to define: he returned to it
again and again: at length he abandoned it with poignant regret;
and when he was at length fixed among the whites, several of his
children refused to share his tranquil and easy situation. I saw
Tanner myself at the lower end of Lake Superior; he seemed to me
to be more like a savage than a civilized being. His book is
written without either taste or order; but he gives, even
unconsciously, a lively picture of the prejudices, the passions,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lady Baltimore by Owen Wister: questions. And when I offered to accompany him to where he lived, he
declined altogether, assuring me that it was close, and that he could
walk there as well as if nothing had happened to him; but upon my asking
him if I was on the right way to the carpenter's shop, he looked at me
curiously.
"No use you gwine dab, sah. Dat shop close up. He not wukkin, dis week,
and dat why fo' I jaw him jus' now when you come in an' stop him. He de
cahpentah, my gran'son, Cha's Coteswuth."
XII: From the Bedside
Next morning when I saw the weltering sky I resigned myself to a day of
dullness; yet before its end I had caught a bright new glimpse of John
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