| 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: and Werper. Chulk led them. The Belgian officer
called to his men to fire upon the intruders; but the
Negroes held back, filled as they were with
superstitious terror of the hairy treemen, and with the
conviction that the white giant who could thus summon
the beasts of the jungle to his aid was more than human.
Drawing his own weapon, the officer fired, and Tarzan
fearing the effect of the noise upon his really timid
friends called to them to hasten and fulfill his commands.
A couple of the apes turned and fled at the sound of
the firearm; but Chulk and a half dozen others waddled
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Fanny Herself by Edna Ferber: sprung from Schabelitz the peasant boy, and in the process
he had managed, somehow, to retain the simplicity which was
his charm. Still, there was something queer and foreign in
the way he bent over Mrs. Brandeis's hand. We do not bow
like that in Winnebago.
"Mrs. Brandeis, I am honored to meet you."
"And I to meet you," replied the shopkeeper in the black
sateen apron.
"I have just had the pleasure of hearing your son play,"
began Schabelitz.
"Mr. Bauer called me out of my economics class at school,
Fanny Herself |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lady Baltimore by Owen Wister: automobile something which my own unencumbered vision had by no means
detected.
But now, here on the bridge, even her outward appearance was as shrouded
as her inward qualities--save such as might be audible in that voice, as
her skilful, well-placed speeches to one and the other of the company
tided over and carried off into ease this uneasy moment. All men, at such
a voice, have pricked up their ears since the beginning; there was much
woman in it; each slow, schooled syllable called its challenge to
questing man. But I got no chance to look in the eye that went with that
voice; she took all the advantages which her veil gave her; and how well
she used them I was to learn later.
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