| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie: "Thank you, Manning, that will do," said Poirot pleasantly.
The gardener glanced at his master, who nodded, whereupon Manning
lifted a finger to his forehead with a low mumble, and backed
cautiously out of the window.
We all looked at each other.
"Good heavens!" murmured John. "What an extraordinary
coincidence."
"How--a coincidence?"
"That my mother should have made a will on the very day of her
death!"
Mr. Wells cleared his throat and remarked drily:
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu by Sax Rohmer: the distances of the cellars. Their walls and roof seemed to emit
a faint, phosphorescent light.
"Petrie!" came a weak voice from somewhere ahead. . . ."Is that you, Petrie?"
It was Nayland Smith!
"Smith!" I said, and strove to sit up. But the intense nausea overcame me,
so that I all but swooned.
I heard his voice again, but could attach no meaning to the words
which he uttered. A sound of terrific blows reached my ears, too.
The Burman reappeared, bending under the heavy load which he bore.
For, as he picked his way through the bloated things which grew
upon the floors of the cellars, I realized that he was carrying
The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs: of the hunt would be lessened in proportion to the increased
safety which I felt."
"Then I am to take it that Monsieur Tarzan would prefer
to go naked into the jungle, armed only with a jackknife, to
kill the king of beasts," laughed the other, good naturedly,
but with the merest touch of sarcasm in his tone.
"And a piece of rope," added Tarzan.
Just then the deep roar of a lion sounded from the distant
jungle, as though to challenge whoever dared enter the lists
with him.
"There is your opportunity, Monsieur Tarzan," bantered
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