| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Jungle Tales of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: "Your baby!" he exclaimed. "What should I know of him,
other than that I rescued him from the white god
of the jungle and have not yet received my pay.
I come for the goats and the sleeping mat and the piece
of copper wire the length of a tall man's arm from the
shoulder to the tips of his fingers." "Offal of a hyena!"
shrieked Momaya. "My child has been stolen, and you,
rotting fragment of a man, have taken him. Return him
to me or I shall tear your eyes from your head and feed
your heart to the wild hogs."
Bukawai shrugged his shoulders. "What do I know about
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pierre Grassou by Honore de Balzac: not but admire the beautiful villa of the bottle-dealer, standing in a
park of five acres at the summit of Ville d'Avray, commanding a noble
view of the landscape. Marry Virginie, and have that beautiful villa
some day for his own!
He was received by the Vervelles with an enthusiasm, a joy, a
kindliness, a frank bourgeois absurdity which confounded him. It was
indeed a day of triumph. The prospective son-in-law was marched about
the grounds on the nankeen-colored paths, all raked as they should be
for the steps of so great a man. The trees themselves looked brushed
and combed, and the lawns had just been mown. The pure country air
wafted to the nostrils a most enticing smell of cooking. All things
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: experience of ordinary masonic operations. In this case
Smeaton's `Narrative' must be the text-book, and energy and
perseverance the pratique." '
(1) The particular event which concentrated Mr.
Stevenson's attention on the problem of the Bell Rock was the
memorable gale of December 1799, when, among many other
vessels, H.M.S. YORK, a seventy-four-gun ship, went down with
all hands on board. Shortly after this disaster Mr. Stevenson
made a careful survey, and prepared his models for a stone
tower, the idea of which was at first received with pretty
general scepticism, Smeaton's Eddystone tower could not be
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