| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: another of them. Almost simultaneously the hyaenodon
pulled down the remaining enemy, crushing his skull
with a single bite of those fearsome jaws.
The battle was over--unless the beast considered me
fair prey, too. I waited, ready for him with knife and
bludgeon--also filched from a dead foeman; but he paid
no attention to me, falling to work instead to devour one
of the corpses.
The beast bad been handicapped but little by his
splinted leg; but having eaten he lay down and com-
menced to gnaw at the bandage. I was sitting some little
Pellucidar |
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: nel. It is, as you might say, a consensus of transla-
tion, concentrating in a crystallized, general idea
which reveals itself in what may be termed the Voice
of the City. Can you tell me what it is?
Aurelia smiled wonderfully. She sat on the high
stoop. A spray of insolent ivy bobbed against her
right ear. A ray of impudent moonlight flickered
upon her nose. But I was adamant, nickel-
plated.
"I must go and find out," I said, "what is the
Voice of this city. Other cities have voices. It is an
The Voice of the City |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Daisy Miller by Henry James: "And what does Daisy say?"
"Oh, she says she isn't engaged. But she might as well be!"
this impartial parent resumed; "she goes on as if she was.
But I've made Mr. Giovanelli promise to tell me, if SHE doesn't.
I should want to write to Mr. Miller about it--shouldn't you?"
Winterbourne replied that he certainly should; and the state of mind
of Daisy's mamma struck him as so unprecedented in the annals of parental
vigilance that he gave up as utterly irrelevant the attempt to place
her upon her guard.
After this Daisy was never at home, and Winterbourne ceased to meet her
at the houses of their common acquaintances, because, as he perceived,
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