| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Purse by Honore de Balzac: to men of fashion why, in the absence of the porter whom he had
sent to the end of the Rue de la Madeleine to call him a coach,
Hippolyte Schinner did not ask the man's wife any questions
concerning the two women whose kindness of heart had shown itself
in his behalf. But though he replied Yes or No to the inquiries,
natural under the circumstances, which the good woman made as to
his accident, and the friendly intervention of the tenants
occupying the fourth floor, he could not hinder her from
following the instinct of her kind; she mentioned the two
strangers, speaking of them as prompted by the interests of her
policy and the subterranean opinions of the porter's lodge.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: brothers now, or shall he kill first?"
Go-lat raised his bloodshot eyes to the face of the Tar-
mangani. "Kagoda!" he cried "Tarzan of the Apes will dance
the Dum-Dum with his brothers and Go-lat will dance with him!"
And then the girl in the tree saw the savage man leaping,
bending, and stamping with the savage apes in the ancient
rite of the Dum-Dum. His roars and growls were more
beastly than the beasts. His handsome face was distorted
with savage ferocity. He beat upon his great breast and
screamed forth his challenge as his smooth, brown hide
brushed the shaggy coats of his fellows. It was weird; it was
Tarzan the Untamed |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Apology by Xenophon: The Memorabilia 4
The Symposium 1
The Economist 1
On Horsemanship 1
The Sportsman 1
The Cavalry General 1
The Apology 1
On Revenues 1
The Hiero 1
The Agesilaus 1
The Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians 2
The Apology |
