| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: scattered into three bands which, partially surrounding him,
came simultaneously toward him from different directions,
and though he emptied his pistol with good effect, they
reached him at last. They seemed to know that his ammuni-
tion was exhausted, for they circled close about him now with
the evident intention of taking him alive, since they might
easily have riddled him with their sharp spears with perfect
safety to themselves.
For two or three minutes they circled about him until, at a
word from Numabo, they closed in simultaneously, and though
the slender young lieutenant struck out to right and left, he
Tarzan the Untamed |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe: for any care that the men who belonged to the shop had taken
of it; but an officious fellow in a house, not a shop, on the
other side of the way, seeing me go in, and observing that
there was nobody in the shop, comes running over the street,
and into the shop, and without asking me what I was, or who,
seizes upon me, an cries out for the people of the house.
I had not, as I said above, touched anything in the shop, and
seeing a glimpse of somebody running over to the shop, I had
so much presence of mind as to knock very hard with my
foot on the floor of the house, and was just calling out too,
when the fellow laid hands on me.
Moll Flanders |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from United States Declaration of Independence: He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas
to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of
their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has
endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers,
the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare,
is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress
in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered
only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked
by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler
United States Declaration of Independence |
