| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: He belonged to that almost extinct species for which white men
have long sought upon the information of the natives of the more
inaccessible jungles. Even the natives seldom see these great,
hairy, primordial men.
Korak advanced to meet the monster. He, too, was growling.
In his mind a plan was revolving. To close with this powerful,
untired brute after having just passed through a terrific battle
with another of his kind would have been to tempt defeat. He must
find an easier way to victory. Crouching, he prepared to meet
the charge which he knew would soon come, nor did he have long
to wait. His antagonist paused only for sufficient time to
The Son of Tarzan |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: friends, who swear you never committed a crime. The farther
south I get the clearer this becomes. What I want to know is
the truth. Have you ever done anything criminal? Tell me the
truth, Duane. It won't make any difference in my plan. And when
I say crime I mean what I would call crime, or any reasonable
Texan."
"That way my hands are clean," replied Duane.
"You never held up a man, robbed a store for grub, stole a
horse when you needed him bad--never anything like that?"
"Somehow I always kept out of that, just when pressed the
hardest."
The Lone Star Ranger |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from When the World Shook by H. Rider Haggard: other earthquake."
"I do not know," she answered, "or if I know I may not say. Yet
learn that no god can live on without a single worshipper, and,
in a fashion, that idol was alive, though this you will not
believe."
"How very remarkable," said Bastin, contemplating the ruin. "If
I were superstitious, which I am not, I should say that this
occurrence was an omen indicating the final fall of a false god.
At any rate it is dead now, and I wonder what caused it?"
"I felt an earth tremor last night," said Bickley, "though it
is odd that it should only have affected this particular statue.
When the World Shook |
