| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Monster Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs: belly with the wind and the vessel make headway, then
she would come suddenly about, only to repeat the same
tactics a moment later. She sailed first this way and
then that, losing one minute what she had gained the
minute before.
Von Horn was the first to recognize her.
"It is the Ithaca," he said, "and her Dyak crew are
having a devil of a time managing her--she acts as
though she were rudderless."
Von Horn ran the small boat within hailing distance of
the dismasted hulk whose side was now lined with waving,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Complete Angler by Izaak Walton: before, at several times, and in small pellets, you are the likelier, when
you fish for the Carp, to obtain your desired sport. Or, in a large pond,
to draw them to any certain place, that they may the better and with
more hope be fished for, you are to throw into it, in some certain place,
either grains, or blood mixt with cow-dung or with bran; or any
garbage, as chicken's guts or the like; and then, some of your small
sweet pellets with which you propose to angle: and these small pellets
being a few of them also thrown in as you are angling, will be the
better.
And your paste must be thus made: take the flesh of a rabbit, or cat, cut
small; and bean-flour; and if that may not be easily got, get other flour;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In a German Pension by Katherine Mansfield: and put her arm across her face like a child who expected to be hurt as
Herr Brechenmacher lurched in.
6. THE MODERN SOUL.
"Good-evening," said the Herr Professor, squeezing my hand; "wonderful
weather! I have just returned from a party in the wood. I have been
making music for them on my trombone. You know, these pine-trees provide
most suitable accompaniment for a trombone! They are sighing delicacy
against sustained strength, as I remarked once in a lecture on wind
instruments in Frankfort. May I be permitted to sit beside you on this
bench, gnadige Frau?"
He sat down, tugging at a white-paper package in the tail pocket of his
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