| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: detection and pursuit, it might be necessary for me to
hold off Hooja's people while Dian made her way alone
to where my new friend was to await her. I impressed
upon him the fact that he might have to resort to trick-
ery or even to force to get Dian to leave me; but I made
him promise that he would sacrifice everything, even his
life, in an attempt to rescue Dacor's sister.
Then we parted--he to take up his position where he
could watch the boat and await Dian, I to crawl cau-
tiously on toward the caves. I had no difficulty in fol-
lowing the directions given me by Juag, the name by
Pellucidar |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Cavalry General by Xenophon: The above may serve as memoranda[13] of the duties which will claim
your chief attention. How the details in each case may best be carried
out is a further matter, which I will now endeavour to explain.
[13] "A sort of notes and suggestions," "mementoes." Cf.
"Horsemanship," iii. 1, xii. 14.
As to the men themselves--the class from which you make your pick of
troopers--clearly according to the law you are bound to enrol "the
ablest" you can find "in point of wealth and bodily physique"; and "if
not by persuasion, then by prosecution in a court of law."[14] And for
my part, I think, if legal pressure is to be applied, you should apply
it in those cases where neglect to prosecute might fairly be ascribed
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf: said. Lily must come and see that picture, he said. But now--he turned,
with his glasses raised to the scientific examination of her canvas. The
question being one of the relations of masses, of lights and shadows,
which, to be honest, he had never considered before, he would like to have
it explained--what then did she wish to make of it? And he indicated the
scene before them. She looked. She could not show him what she wished to
make of it, could not see it even herself, without a brush in her hand.
She took up once more her old painting position with the dim eyes and the
absent-minded manner, subduing all her impressions as a woman to something
much more general; becoming once more under the power of that vision which
she had seen clearly once and must now grope for among hedges and houses
To the Lighthouse |
