| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs: but script he had not mastered, for though there were several
copy books among his treasure, there was so little written
English in the cabin that he saw no use for bothering with this
other form of writing, though he could read it, laboriously.
Thus, at eighteen, we find him, an English lordling, who
could speak no English, and yet who could read and write his
native language. Never had he seen a human being other
than himself, for the little area traversed by his tribe was
watered by no greater river to bring down the savage natives of
the interior.
High hills shut it off on three sides, the ocean on the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Kwaidan by Lafcadio Hearn: natural economy may have decided the matter. In many forms of life, the
female greatly exceeds the male in bulk and in energy;-- perhaps, in this
case, the larger reserve of life-force possessed originally by the complete
female could be more rapidly and effectively utilized for the development
of a special fighting-caste. All energies which, in the fertile female,
would be expended in the giving of life seem here to have been diverted to
the evolution of aggressive power, or working-capacity.]
Of the true females,-- the Mothers-Elect,-- there are very few indeed; and
these are treated like queens. So constantly and so reverentially are they
waited upon that they can seldom have any wishes to express. They are
relieved from every care of existence,-- except the duty of bearing
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Padre Ignacio by Owen Wister: stepped out for a look at the ocean; but the blue triangle of water lay
like a picture in its frame of land, bare as the sky. "I think, from the
color, though," said he, "that a little more wind must have begun out
there."
The bell rang a last short summons to prayer. Along the road from the
south a young rider, leading a pack-animal, ambled into the mission and
dismounted. Church was not so much in his thoughts as food and, after due
digestion, a bed; but the doors stood open, and, as everybody was passing
within them, more variety was to be gained by joining this company than
by waiting outside alone until they should return from their devotions.
So he seated himself in a corner near the entrance, and after a brief,
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