| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: "The king is in Tafelberg, your highness," he said.
"The king is dead," snapped Peter. "There is an impostor
in the palace at Lustadt. But the real Leopold of Lutha
was slain by Yellow Franz's band of brigands weeks ago."
"I heard the man at Tafelberg tell another that he was
the king," insisted the fellow. "Through the keyhole of his
room I saw him take a great ring from his finger--a ring
with a mighty ruby set in its center--and give it to the other.
Both were bearded men with gray eyes--either might have
passed for the king by the description upon the placards
that have covered Lutha for the past month. At first he
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Night and Day by Virginia Woolf: world. But Mrs. Hilbery, instead of repeating the word love, said
pleadingly:
"And you won't think those ugly thoughts again, will you, Katharine?"
at which words the ship which Katharine had been considering seemed to
put into harbor and have done with its seafaring. Yet she was in great
need, if not exactly of sympathy, of some form of advice, or, at
least, of the opportunity of setting forth her problems before a third
person so as to renew them in her own eyes.
"But then," she said, ignoring the difficult problem of ugliness, "you
knew you were in love; but we're different. It seems," she continued,
frowning a little as she tried to fix the difficult feeling, "as if
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin: come into play.
Finally, so many expressive movements can be explained, as I trust
will be seen in the course of this volume, through the three
principles which have now been discussed, that we may hope hereafter
to see all thus explained, or by closely analogous principles.
It is, however, often impossible to decide how much weight ought
to be attributed, in each particular case, to one of our principles,
and how much to another; and very many points in the theory
of Expression remain inexplicable. CHAPTER IV.
MEANS OF EXPRESSION IN ANIMALS.
The emission of Sounds--Vocal sounds--Sounds otherwise produced--
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