| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Jungle Tales of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: his long bow and at his back hung a quiver full of arrows,
poisoned arrows that he had stolen from the village of
the blacks; just as he had stolen the bow. Up into a great
tree he clambered, higher and higher until he stood swaying
upon a small limb which bent low beneath his weight.
Here he had a clear and unobstructed view of the heavens.
He saw Goro and the inroads which the hungry Numa had made
into his shining surface.
Raising his face to the moon, Tarzan shrilled forth
his hideous challenge. Faintly and from afar came
the roar of an answering lion. The apes shivered.
The Jungle Tales of Tarzan |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Lock and Key Library by Julian Hawthorne, Ed.: dislike of discussing them and their affairs, a total want of that
enjoyment of love and possession which in such a case one might
have expected to find. Alan's state of mind was even more marked.
Never did I hear him willingly address his nephews, or in any way
allude to their existence. I should have said that he simply
ignored it, but for the heavy gloom which always overspread his
spirits in their company, and for the glances which he would now
and again cast in their direction--glances full of some hidden
painful emotion, though of what nature it would have been hard to
define. Indeed, Alan's attitude towards her children I soon found
to be the only source of friction between Lucy and this otherwise
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott: six hours without intermission.
The issue of this unfortunate requisition had shut against Caleb
all resources which could be derived from Wolf's Hope and its
purlieus, the El Dorado, or Peru, from which, in all former
cases of exigence, he had been able to extract some assistance.
He had, indeed, in a manner vowed that the deil should have him,
if ever he put the print of his foot within its causeway again.
He had hitherto kept his word; and, strange to tell, this
secession had, as he intended, in some degree, the effect of a
punishment upon the refractory feuars. Mr. Balderstone had been
a person in their eyes connected with a superior order of beings,
The Bride of Lammermoor |
