| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: soft flesh, and even though she were an enemy Tarzan could
not but feel compunction that he had permitted her to do
this work, and at last he bade her stop.
"Why?" she asked. "It is no more painful to me than it must
be to you, and, as it is solely for my protection that you are
building this boma, there is no reason why I should not do my
share."
"You are a woman," replied Tarzan. "This is not a wom-
an's work. If you wish to do something, take those gourds
I brought this morning and fill them with water at the river.
You may need it while I am away."
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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: delighted Michael Angelo; and as for the phenomenal corpulency of
the wrestlers, it would have made of the place a very paradise for
Rubens. In regard to the doctors,--for to call them surgeons would
be to give a name to what does not exist,--a lack of scientific zeal
has been the cause of their not investigating what tempts too
seductively, we should imagine, to be ignored. Acupuncture, or the
practice of sticking long pins into any part of the patient's body
that may happen to be paining him, pretty much irrespective of
anatomical position, is the nearest approach to surgery of which
they are guilty, and proclaims of itself the in corpore vili
character of the thing operated upon.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Philosophy 4 by Owen Wister: induced them to delay their escape from Cambridge for a moment this
morning. "What do you suppose Oscar is doing now?" Billy inquired of
Bertie, as they led the black gelding back to the road; and Bertie
laughed like an infant. "Gentlemen," said he, in Oscar's manner, "we
now approach the multiplicity of the ego." The black gelding must have
thought it had humorists to deal with this day.
Oscar, as a matter of fact, was eating his cheap lunch away over in
Cambridge. There was cold mutton, and boiled potatoes with hard brown
spots in them, and large picked cucumbers; and the salt was damp and
would not shake out through the holes in the top of the bottle. But
Oscar ate two helps of everything with a good appetite, and between
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