| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Beasts of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: for having him brought aboard the ship--to dispatch him in
comparative safety in revenge for his having thwarted
Rokoff's pet schemes, and for having been at last the
means of landing him in a French prison.
Tarzan, on his part, lay in the darkness of his cell, ignorant
of the fact that his wife was a prisoner in the cabin almost
above his head.
The same Swede that served Jane brought his meals to him,
but, though on several occasions Tarzan had tried to
draw the man into conversation, he had been unsuccessful.
He had hoped to learn through this fellow whether his little
The Beasts of Tarzan |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Animal Farm by George Orwell: in flight, and they rushed after them in disorder. This was just what
Snowball had intended. As soon as they were well inside the yard, the
three horses, the three cows, and the rest of the pigs, who had been lying
in ambush in the cowshed, suddenly emerged in their rear, cutting them
off. Snowball now gave the signal for the charge. He himself dashed
straight for Jones. Jones saw him coming, raised his gun and fired. The
pellets scored bloody streaks along Snowball's back, and a sheep dropped
dead. Without halting for an instant, Snowball flung his fifteen stone
against Jones's legs. Jones was hurled into a pile of dung and his gun
flew out of his hands. But the most terrifying spectacle of all was Boxer,
rearing up on his hind legs and striking out with his great iron-shod
Animal Farm |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: sary's mail, and the fellow with a cry of anguish sank
limply to the ground.
"Quick, Sir Knight!" cried the girl. "Mount and flee;
yonder come his fellows."
And surely, as Norman of Torn turned in the direc-
tion from which he had just come, there, racing toward
him at full tilt, rode three steel-armored men on their
mighty horses.
"Ride, madam," cried Norman of Torn, "for fly I
shall not, nor may I, alone, unarmored, and on foot
hope more than to momentarily delay these three fel-
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