| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Extracts From Adam's Diary by Mark Twain: I was, I laid down the apple half eaten--certainly the best one I
ever saw, considering the lateness of the season--and arrayed
myself in the discarded boughs and branches, and then spoke to her
with some severity and ordered her to go and get some more and not
make such a spectacle of herself. She did it, and after this we
crept down to where the wild-beast battle had been, and collected
some skins, and I made her patch together a couple of suits proper
for public occasions. They are uncomfortable, it is true, but
stylish, and that is the main point about clothes. ... I find
she is a good deal of a companion. I see I should be lonesome and
depressed without her, now that I have lost my property. Another
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from At the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs: and so you will be accomplishing nothing for your friends
by returning. Never in all my life have I heard of a
prisoner returning to the Mahars of his own free will.
There are but few who escape them, though some do,
and these would rather die than be recaptured."
"I see no other way, Ja," I said, "though I can assure
you that I would rather go to Sheol after Perry
than to Phutra. However, Perry is much too pious
to make the probability at all great that I should
ever be called upon to rescue him from the former locality."
Ja asked me what Sheol was, and when I explained, as best
At the Earth's Core |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling: little white teeth were clenched on her tail, and he went down
with her--and very few mongooses, however wise and old they may
be, care to follow a cobra into its hole. It was dark in the
hole; and Rikki-tikki never knew when it might open out and give
Nagaina room to turn and strike at him. He held on savagely, and
stuck out his feet to act as brakes on the dark slope of the hot,
moist earth.
Then the grass by the mouth of the hole stopped waving, and
Darzee said, "It is all over with Rikki-tikki! We must sing his
death song. Valiant Rikki-tikki is dead! For Nagaina will surely
kill him underground."
The Jungle Book |
