| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tour Through Eastern Counties of England by Daniel Defoe: servants from showing them, except on one or two days in a week
only.
The house is built since these gardens have been finished. The
building is all of Portland stone in the front, which makes it look
extremely glorious and magnificent at a distance, it being the
particular property of that stone (except in the streets of London,
where it is tainted and tinged with the smoke of the city) to grow
whiter and whiter the longer it stands in the open air.
As the front of the house opens to a long row of trees, reaching to
the great road at Leightonstone, so the back face, or front (if
that be proper), respects the gardens, and, with an easy descent,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson:
Treasure Island |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: terly wanton and uncalled-for was the attack that it found
the girl entirely unprepared, and what would have happened
had not a warrior interfered may only be guessed. And then
Usanga, noting the interruption, came lurching forward to
question her.
"What do you want," he cried, "food and drink? Come
with me!" and he threw an arm about her and dragged her
toward the circle.
"No!" she cried, "I want Naratu. Where is Naratu?"
This seemed to sober the black for a moment as though he
had temporarily forgotten his better half. He cast quick, fear-
Tarzan the Untamed |
