| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Chessmen of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: also Olvia Marthis, whom I have never seen wait long to be
claimed for this or any other dance."
"I have already lost her," admitted Djor Kantos ruefully.
"And you mean to say that you came for Tara of Helium only after
having lost Olvia Marthis?" demanded the girl, still simulating
displeasure.
"Oh, Tara of Helium, you know better than that," insisted the
young man. "Was it not natural that I should assume that you
would expect me, who alone has claimed you for the Dance of
Barsoom for at least twelve times past?"
"And sit and play with my thumbs until you saw fit to come for
The Chessmen of Mars |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Voice of the City by O. Henry: on the 5.30 Harlem express staggered back like chil-
dren as she bucked centre. Two large lady spectators
who bad seen the Duke of Roxburgh married and
had often blocked traffic on Twenty-third Street
fell back into the second row with ripped shirtwaists
when Violet had finished with them. William Pry
loved her at first sight.
The ambulance removed the unconscious agent of
Cupid. William and Violet remained after the crowd
had dispersed. They were true Rubberers. People
who leave the scene of an accident with the ambulance
The Voice of the City |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson: yet that influence, that radiant persuasion that never failed
Yoshida in any circumstance of his short life, enchanted,
enthralled, and converted the common soldier, as it had done
already with the elegant and learned. The man instantly
burned up into a true enthusiasm; his mind had been only
waiting for a teacher; he grasped in a moment the profit of
these new ideas; he, too, would go to foreign, outlandish
parts, and bring back the knowledge that was to strengthen
and renew Japan; and in the meantime, that he might be the
better prepared, Yoshida set himself to teach, and he to
learn, the Chinese literature. It is an episode most
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