| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie: guarded description of Annette also failed to provoke
recognition.
Astley Priors was a pleasant red-brick edifice, surrounded by
well-wooded grounds which effectually shielded the house from
observation from the road.
On the first evening Tommy, accompanied by Albert, explored the
grounds. Owing to Albert's insistence they dragged themselves
along painfully on their stomachs, thereby producing a great deal
more noise than if they had stood upright. In any case, these
precautions were totally unnecessary. The grounds, like those of
any other private house after nightfall, seemed untenanted.
Secret Adversary |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Out of Time's Abyss by Edgar Rice Burroughs: back with him to his country?" she asked. Co-Tan admitted it.
"You dare?" asked Ajor. "But your father will not permit it--
Jor, my father, High Chief of the Galus, will not permit it, for
like me you are cos-ata-lo. Oh, Co-Tan, if we but could!
How I would love to see all the strange and wonderful things of
which my Tom tells me!"
Bradley bent and whispered in her ear. "Say the word and you may
both go with us."
Billings heard and speaking in English, asked Ajor if she would go.
"Yes," she answered, "If you wish it; but you know, my Tom, that
if Jor captures us, both you and Co-Tan's man will pay the
Out of Time's Abyss |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The White Moll by Frank L. Packard: You are easier to watch if you are not too far apart."
Dangler complied sullenly. Skeeny, over the scraping of his chair
legs, cursed in a sort of unnerved abandon, as he obeyed her.
"Thank you!" said Rhoda Gray pleasantly - and calmly tucked the
necklace into her bodice.
The act seemed to rouse Danglar to the last pitch of fury. The
blood rushed in an angry tide to his face, and, suffusing, purpled
his cheeks.
"This isn't the first crack you've made!" he flung out hoarsely.
"You've been getting wise to a whole lot lately somehow, you and
that dude pal of yours, but you'll pay for it, you female devil!
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