| 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: fangs and talons.
The lion reared up to meet this new enemy. The beast
was growling frightfully, and then upon the startled
ears of the Belgian, broke a similar savage growl from
the lips of the man rushing upon the beast.
By a quick side step, Tarzan eluded the first swinging
clutch of the lion's paws. Darting to the beast's
side, he leaped upon the tawny back. His arms
encircled the maned neck, his teeth sank deep into the
brute's flesh. Roaring, leaping, rolling and
struggling, the giant cat attempted to dislodge this
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen: A hundred a year would make them all perfectly comfortable."
His wife hesitated a little, however, in giving
her consent to this plan.
"To be sure," said she, "it is better than parting with
fifteen hundred pounds at once. But, then, if Mrs. Dashwood
should live fifteen years we shall be completely taken in."
"Fifteen years! my dear Fanny; her life cannot
be worth half that purchase."
"Certainly not; but if you observe, people always
live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them;
and she is very stout and healthy, and hardly forty.
Sense and Sensibility |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Whirligigs by O. Henry: Slayton finished "Love Is All," and took it to thy
Hearthstone in person. The office of the magazine was
in a large, conglomerate building, presided under by a
janitor.
As the writer stepped inside the door on his way to
the elevator a potato masher flew through the hall, wreck-
ing, Slayton's hat, and smashing the glass of the door.
Closely following in the wake of the utensil flew the
janitor, a bulky, unwholesome man, suspenderless and
sordid, panic-stricken and breathless. A frowsy, tall
woman with flying hair followed the missile. The
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