| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Jungle Tales of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: And then Mbonga, the chief, came, and laying his spear
heavily across the shoulders of his people, drove them
from their prey.
"We will save him until night," he said.
Far out in the jungle Tantor, the elephant, his first
panic of fear allayed, stood with up-pricked ears and
undulating trunk. What was passing through the convolutions
of his savage brain? Could he be searching for Tarzan?
Could he recall and measure the service the ape-man
had performed for him? Of that there can be no doubt.
But did he feel gratitude? Would he have risked his own
The Jungle Tales of Tarzan |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Albert Savarus by Honore de Balzac: being married!--what could he do? Albert is dead, quite dead to
the world. He longed for rest; let us hope that the deep silence
and prayer into which he has thrown himself may give him happiness
in another guise. You, monsieur, who have known him, must greatly
pity him; and pity his friends also.
"Yours, etc."
As soon as he received this letter the good Vicar-General wrote to the
General of the Carthusian order, and this was the letter he received
from Albert Savarus:--
"Brother Albert to Monsieur l'Abbe de Grancey,
Vicar-General of the Diocese of Besancon.
Albert Savarus |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: you bored the stem: they drank it, and gave God thanks, and were
not astonished. God was great: but that they had discovered long
before they came into the tropics. Noble old child-hearted heroes,
with just romance and superstition enough about them to keep them
from that prurient hysterical wonder and enthusiasm, which is
simply, one often fears, a product of our scepticism! We do not
trust enough in God, we do not really believe His power enough, to
be ready, as they were, as every one ought to be on a God-made
earth, for anything and everything being possible; and then, when a
wonder is discovered, we go into ecstasies and shrieks over it, and
take to ourselves credit for being susceptible of so lofty a
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