| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tom Sawyer Abroad by Mark Twain: Jim DID cry, and rip and dance and carry on, he was
so thankful and out of his mind for joy. It was my
watch, so I had to stay by the works, but Tom and
Jim clumb down and drunk a barrel apiece, and
fetched me up a lot, and I've tasted a many a good
thing in my life, but nothing that ever begun with that
water.
Then we went down and had a swim, and then Tom
came up and spelled me, and me and Jim had a swim,
and then Jim spelled Tom, and me and Tom had a
foot-race and a boxing-mill, and I don't reckon I ever
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Emma McChesney & Co. by Edna Ferber: mother, very pink-cheeked, very bright-eyed, pulled him through
the throng. As they reached the edge of the crowd, there came a
great burst of applause, a buzz of conversation, the turning,
shifting, nodding, staccato movements which mean approval in a
mass of people.
"What the dickens! How!" stammered Jock. "When--did she--did
she----"
Emma, half smiling, half tearful, raised a protesting hand.
"I don't know. Don't ask me, dear. And don't hate me for it.
I tried to tell her not to, but she insisted. And, Jock, she's
done it, I tell you! She's done it! They love the skirt!
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: I'll try -- I've been pretty weak since a lion mauled me and
the guards beat me up, and too, I haven't eaten since yester-
day."
Tarzan thought a moment. "You've got to go with me," he
said at last. "I can't leave you here. The only chance you have
of escape is through me and I can't go with you now until
we have found the girl."
"I want to go with you," replied Smith-Oldwick. "I'm not
much good now but at that two of us may be better than
one."
"All right," said Tarzan, "come on," and before the Eng-
Tarzan the Untamed |
