| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: sworn 'twas a child's feeble wail had I not seen the
two filthy rodents with mine own eyes. Come, let us
to the next vile alley. We have met with no success
here, though that old hag who called herself Til seemed
overanxious to bargain for the future information she
seemed hopeful of being able to give us."
As they moved off, their voices grew fainter in the
ears of the listeners beneath the dock and soon were
lost in the distance.
"A close shave," thought De Vac, as he again took up
the child and prepared to gain the dock. No further
The Outlaw of Torn |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Soul of the Far East by Percival Lowell: not suffered to lie idle, and even poetry often hinges on certain
consecrated plays on words. From the very constitution of the
people there is of course nothing selfish in the national enjoyment.
A man is quite as ready to laugh at his own expense as at his
neighbor's, a courtesy which his neighbor cordially returns.
Now the ludicrous is essentially human in its application.
The principle of the synthesis of contradictories, popularly known
by the name of humor, is necessarily limited in its field to man.
For whether it have to do wholly with actions, or partly with the
words that express them, whether it be presented in the shape of a
pun or a pleasantry, it is in incongruous contrasts that its virtue
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Grimm's Fairy Tales by Brothers Grimm: will try my fortune,' said he, and the next day when it began to grow
dark, he went to the tower and cried:
'Rapunzel, Rapunzel,
Let down your hair to me.'
Immediately the hair fell down and the king's son climbed up.
At first Rapunzel was terribly frightened when a man, such as her eyes
had never yet beheld, came to her; but the king's son began to talk to
her quite like a friend, and told her that his heart had been so
stirred that it had let him have no rest, and he had been forced to
see her. Then Rapunzel lost her fear, and when he asked her if she
would take him for her husband, and she saw that he was young and
Grimm's Fairy Tales |
