| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: to guide us, and so I simply swung back straight north. We have
been living on the fruits of our guns for over a month. Didn't have
an idea there was a white man within a thousand miles of us when
we camped last night by a water hole at the edge of the plain.
This morning I started out to hunt and saw the smoke from your
chimney, so I sent my gun bearer back to camp with the good news
and rode straight over here myself. Of course I've heard of
you--everybody who comes into Central Africa does--and I'd be
mighty glad of permission to rest up and hunt around here for
a couple of weeks."
"Certainly," replied Bwana. "Move your camp up close to
The Son of Tarzan |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from End of the Tether by Joseph Conrad: "Well, it suits my interest that Captain Whalley
should finish his time. I shall probably take a passage
with you down the Straits. If that can be done, I'll be
on the spot when all these changes take place, and in a
position to look after YOUR interests."
"Mr. Van Wyk, I want nothing better. I am sure
I am infinitely . . ."
"I take it, then, that this may be done without any
trouble."
"Well, sir, what risk there is can't be helped; but
(speaking to you as my employer now) the thing is
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall: The symmetry of the one involves that of the other. Thus, if the
molecules of a crystal be perfectly symmetrical round any line
through the crystal, we may safely conclude that a ray will pass
along this line as through ordinary glass. It will not be doubly
refracted. From the symmetry of the liquid figures, known to be
produced in the planes of freezing, when radiant heat is sent
through ice, we may safely infer symmetry of aggregation, and hence
conclude that the line perpendicular to the planes of freezing is a
line of no double refraction; that it is, in fact, the optic axis of
the crystal. The same remark applies to the line joining the
opposite blunt angles of a crystal of Iceland spar. The arrangement
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