| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: His kingship was very new and he was jealous of it. He feared
the encroachments of two strange apes. The sleek, brown, hairless
body of the lad spelled "man," and man he feared and hated.
"Go away!" he growled. "Go away, or I will kill you."
The eager lad, standing behind the great Akut, had been pulsing
with anticipation and happiness. He wanted to leap down
among these hairy monsters and show them that he was their
friend, that he was one of them. He had expected that they would
receive him with open arms, and now the words of the king ape
filled him with indignation and sorrow. The blacks had set upon
him and driven him away. Then he had turned to the white
The Son of Tarzan |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe: and, it must be confessed, can never be enough acknowledged on this
occasion also; whatever expense or trouble they were at, two things
were never neglected in the city or suburbs either : -
(1) Provisions were always to be had in full plenty, and the price not
much raised neither, hardly worth speaking.
(2) No dead bodies lay unburied or uncovered; and if one walked
from one end of the city to another, no funeral or sign of it was to be
seen in the daytime, except a little, as I have said above, in the three
first weeks in September.
This last article perhaps will hardly be believed when some
accounts which others have published since that shall be seen,
A Journal of the Plague Year |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Charmides by Plato: many of our acquaintance had fallen.
That, I replied, was not far from the truth.
I suppose, he said, that you were present.
I was.
Then sit down, and tell us the whole story, which as yet we have only heard
imperfectly.
I took the place which he assigned to me, by the side of Critias the son of
Callaeschrus, and when I had saluted him and the rest of the company, I
told them the news from the army, and answered their several enquiries.
Then, when there had been enough of this, I, in my turn, began to make
enquiries about matters at home--about the present state of philosophy, and
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