| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: they had spent in this rich district had loaded the extra
sumpter beasts with rich and valuable booty and the
men, for the time satiated with fighting and loot,
turned their faces toward Torn with evident satisfac-
tion.
The outlaw was speaking to his captains in council;
at his side the old man of Torn.
"Ride by easy stages, Shandy, and I will overtake you
by tomorrow morning. I but ride for a moment to the
castle of De Tany on an errand, and as I shall stop
there but a few moments I shall surely join you to-
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Four Arthurian Romances by Chretien DeTroyes: entirely to blame for his trouble and strife; for on their advice
he entrusted his land to the hands of the traitor, who is worse
than Ganelon. (15) There is not a single one who does not agree
that the King is right, for he had only followed their advice;
but now this man is to be outlawed, and you may be sure that no
town or city will avail to save his body from being dragged out
by force. Thus they all assure the King, giving him their word
upon oath, that they will deliver the traitor to him, or never
again claim their fiefs. And the King proclaims throughout
Brittany that no one who can bear arms shall refuse to follow him
at once.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy: Had he approached without any covering the chances
are that he would not have been perceived in the dusk;
approaching thus, it was as though he burrowed underground.
In this manner he came quite close to where the two
were standing.
"Wish to consult me on the matter?" reached his ears
in the rich, impetuous accents of Eustacia Vye.
"Consult me? It is an indignity to me to talk so--I won't
bear it any longer!" She began weeping. "I have loved you,
and have shown you that I loved you, much to my regret;
and yet you can come and say in that frigid way that you
Return of the Native |
