| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: lives, filled with danger and hardship, appealed to this half-
savage man as nothing had appealed to him in the midst of the
effeminate civilization of the great cities he had visited. Here
was a life that excelled even that of the jungle, for here he
might have the society of men--real men whom he could honor and
respect, and yet be near to the wild nature that he loved.
In his head revolved an idea that when he had completed his
mission he would resign and return to live for the remainder
of his life with the tribe of Kadour ben Saden.
Then he turned his horse's head and rode slowly back to Bou Saada.
The front of the Hotel du Petit Sahara, where Tarzan
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from In the South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson: living thing alighted it was twice brushed away; upon the third
coming it was known to be the spirit of the dead, was folded in,
carried home and buried beside the body; and the aitu rested. The
rite was practised beyond doubt in simple piety; the repose of the
soul was its object: its motive, reverent affection. The present
king disowns indeed all knowledge of a dangerous aitu; he declares
the souls of the unburied were only wanderers in limbo, lacking an
entrance to the proper country of the dead, unhappy, nowise
hurtful. And this severely classic opinion doubtless represents
the views of the enlightened. But the flight of my Lafaele marks
the grosser terrors of the ignorant.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Enemies of Books by William Blades: restoration when injured, 114.--restored after a fire, 15.--
scarce before printing, 2.--sold to a cobbler, 52, 149.--too tight
on shelves, 137.--their claims to be preserved, 151.--used to bake
"pyes," 10.--which scratch one another, 134.
Book-sale in Derbyshire, 145.
Bookworm, the, 67-93.
--attempt to breed, 81-3.--from Greece, 82.--in paper box, 89.--
in United States, gi. Bookworms' progress through books, 84.--
race by, 86.
Bosses on books, 135.
Boys injuring books, 139.
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