| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Island Nights' Entertainments by Robert Louis Stevenson: bosom.
"Me - your wifie," she said. It had never taken me like that
before; but the want of her took and shook all through me, like the
wind in the luff of a sail.
I could not speak if I had wanted; and if I could, I would not. I
was ashamed to be so much moved about a native, ashamed of the
marriage too, and the certificate she had treasured in her kilt;
and I turned aside and made believe to rummage among my cases. The
first thing I lighted on was a case of gin, the only one that I had
brought; and, partly for the girl's sake, and partly for horror of
the recollections of old Randall, took a sudden resolve. I prized
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: the Apes with a machine gun before him with which he was
raking the length of the German trenches.
The foremost Rhodesians saw something else -- they saw a
huge German officer emerge from a dugout just in rear of the
ape-man. They saw him snatch up a discarded rifle with
bayonet fixed and creep upon the apparently unconscious Tar-
zan. They ran forward, shouting warnings; but above the
pandemonium of the trenches and the machine gun their
voices could not reach him. The German leaped upon the
parapet behind him -- the fat hands raised the rifle butt aloft
for the cowardly downward thrust into the naked back and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: passage from one kind of materially conditioned state to another.
The theory thus appeals directly to our experiences of the
behaviour of matter; and in deriving so little support as it does
from these experiences, it remains an essentially weak
speculation, whatever we may think of its ingenuity. For so long
as we are asked to accept conclusions drawn from our experiences
of the material world, we are justified in demanding something
more than mere unconditioned possibility. We require some
positive evidence, be it ever so little in amount; and no theory
which cannot furnish such positive evidence is likely to carry to
our minds much practical conviction.
The Unseen World and Other Essays |
