The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson: your meeting with Burn. We not only know him, but (as the French
say) we don't know anybody else; he is our intimate and adored
original; and - prepare your mind - he was, is, and ever will be,
TOMMY HADDON! As I don't believe you to be inspired, I suspect you
to have suspected this. At least it was a mighty happy suspicion.
You are quite right: Tommy is really 'a good chap,' though about
as comic as they make them.
I was extremely interested in your Fiji legend, and perhaps even
more so in your capital account of the CURACOA'S misadventure.
Alas! we have nothing so thrilling to relate. All hangs and fools
on in this isle of misgovernment, without change, though not
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Monster Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Ninaka and Barunda. There was always the possibility
that the natives had lied to him, and the more he
questioned the Dyak woman the more firmly convinced
he became that this was the fact.
The outcome of it was that von Horn finally decided
to make an attempt to follow the trail of the creature
that the woman had seen, and with this plan in view
persuaded Muda Saffir to arrange with the chief
of the long-house at which they then were to furnish
him with trackers and an escort of warriors,
promising them some splendid heads should they
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Land of Footprints by Stewart Edward White: like a cathedral in the blackness of the forest; or the bottle
bird that apparently pours gurgling liquid gold from a silver
jug. As the jungle is exceedingly populous of these feathered
specialists, it follows that the early morning chorus is
wonderful. Africa may not possess the soloists, but its full
orchestrial effects are superb.
Naturally under the equator one expects and demands the "gorgeous
tropical plumage" of the books. He is not disappointed. The
sun-birds of fifty odd species, the brilliant blue starlings, the
various parrots, the variegated hornbills, the widower-birds, and
dozens of others whose names would mean nothing flash here and
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