| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Beasts of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: The porters lighted torches now and waved them upon either
hand to frighten off the beasts of prey. Rokoff urged
them to greater speed, and from the quavering note in his
voice Jane Clayton knew that he was weak from terror.
The sounds of the jungle night recalled most vividly the
days and nights that she had spent in a similar jungle with
her forest god--with the fearless and unconquerable Tarzan
of the Apes. Then there had been no thoughts of terror,
though the jungle noises were new to her, and the roar of a
lion had seemed the most awe-inspiring sound upon the great earth.
How different would it be now if she knew that he was
The Beasts of Tarzan |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The White Moll by Frank L. Packard: for the last six years, and -"
"He'd have sold his soul out, he was so scared!" The withered hand
on the table twitched; the deformed creature's face was twisted
into a grimace; and the man was chuckling with unhallowed mirth, as
though unable. to contain himself at, presumably, the recollection
of a scene which he had witnessed himself. "He was down on his
knees and clawing out with his hands for mercy, and he squealed like
a rat. 'It's the sixth panel in the bedroom upstairs,' he says;
'it's all there. But for God's sake don't tell Jake I told. It's
the sixth panel. Press the knot in the sixth panel that -'" He
stopped abruptly.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: same period the State of New York progressed in the contrary
direction: in 1790 it had ten representatives in Congress; in
1813, twenty-seven; in 1823, thirty-four; and in 1833, forty.
The State of Ohio had only one representative in 1803, and in
1833 it had already nineteen.
[Footnote o: It may be seen that in the course of the last ten
years (1820-1830) the population of one district, as, for
instance, the State of Delaware, has increased in the proportion
of five per cent.; whilst that of another, as the territory of
Michigan, has increased 250 per cent. Thus the population of
Virginia had augmented thirteen per cent., and that of the border
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