| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Slowly, very slowly, as these visions of the past
animated his lethargic memory, he came to recognize
them. They took definite shape and form, adjusting
themselves nicely to the various incidents of his life
with which they had been intimately connected. His
boyhood among the apes spread itself in a slow panorama
before him, and as it unfolded it induced within him a
mighty longing for the companionship of the shaggy,
low-browed brutes of his past.
He watched the blacks scatter their cook fire and
depart; but though the face of each of them had but
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad: in his ordinary voice. 'You'll have to give him hot drink of some
kind. I will go on board and bring you a spirit-kettle amongst
other things.' And he added under his breath: 'Do they actually
mean murder?'
"She made no sign, she had returned to her desolate contemplation
of the boy. Davidson thought she had not heard him even, when with
an unchanged expression she spoke under her breath.
"'The Frenchman would, in a minute. The others shirk it - unless
you resist. He's a devil. He keeps them going. Without him they
would have done nothing but talk. I've got chummy with him. What
can you do when you are with a man like the fellow I am with now.
Within the Tides |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tess of the d'Urbervilles, A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy: not think of it, wore the same aspect to her.
It was then, as has been said, that she impressed him
most deeply. She was no longer the milkmaid, but a
visionary essence of woman--a whole sex condensed into
one typical form. He called her Artemis, Demeter, and
other fanciful names half teasingly, which she did not
like because she did not understand them.
"Call me Tess," she would say askance; and he did.
Then it would grow lighter, and her features would
become simply feminine; they had changed from those of
a divinity who could confer bliss to those of a being
Tess of the d'Urbervilles, A Pure Woman |
