| 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: Sullenly Cadj promised not to harm his queen.
"Protect her," cried Tarzan to the other Oparians.
"Protect her so that when Tarzan comes again he will
find La there to greet him."
"La will be there to greet thee," exclaimed the High
Priestess, "and La will wait, longing, always longing,
until you come again. Oh, tell me that you will come!"
"Who knows?" asked the ape-man as he swung quickly into
the trees and raced off toward the east.
For a moment La stood looking after him, then her head
drooped, a sigh escaped her lips and like an old woman
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain: great pilot-house. Two or three of them wore polished silk hats, elaborate
shirt-fronts, diamond breast-pins, kid gloves, and patent-leather boots.
They were choice in their English, and bore themselves with a dignity
proper to men of solid means and prodigious reputation as pilots.
The others were more or less loosely clad, and wore upon their heads tall
felt cones that were suggestive of the days of the Commonwealth.
I was a cipher in this august company, and felt subdued, not to say torpid.
I was not even of sufficient consequence to assist at the wheel when it
was necessary to put the tiller hard down in a hurry; the guest that stood
nearest did that when occasion required--and this was pretty much all
the time, because of the crookedness of the channel and the scant water.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Life of the Spider by J. Henri Fabre: fall of foreign bodies which, swept by the wind, might end by
obstructing it; lastly, she uses it as a snare by offering the
Flies and other insects whereon she feeds a projecting point to
settle on. Who shall tell us all the wiles employed by this clever
and daring huntress?
'Let us now say something about my rather diverting Tarantula-
hunts. The best season for them is the months of May and June.
The first time that I lighted on this Spider's burrows and
discovered that they were inhabited by seeing her come to a point
on the first floor of her dwelling--the elbow which I have
mentioned--I thought that I must attack her by main force and
The Life of the Spider |
