| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: soon to learn, for it rapidly became evident that beneath the uncouth
savagery of the girl was a bed rock of innate refinement--a nicety
of taste and predilection that quite equaled that of her instructor.
My Dear was delighted. She was lonely and childless, and so
she lavished upon this little stranger all the mother love that
would have gone to her own had she had one. The result was
that by the end of the first year none might have guessed that
Meriem ever had existed beyond the lap of culture and luxury.
She was sixteen now, though she easily might have passed for
nineteen, and she was very good to look upon, with her black
hair and her tanned skin and all the freshness and purity of health
The Son of Tarzan |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: "All things are possible to them that believe in God, my brother;
and she believes. But, indeed, Doctor Dee, the wise man, gave her
but this summer I know not what of prognostics and diagnostics
concerning me. I am born, it seems, under a cold and watery
planet, and need, if I am to be long-lived, to go nearer to the
vivifying heat of the sun, and there bask out my little life, like
fly on wall. To tell truth, he has bidden me spend no more winters
here in the East; but return to our native sea-breezes, there to
warm my frozen lungs; and has so filled my mother's fancy with
stories of sick men, who were given up for lost in Germany and
France, and yet renewed their youth, like any serpent or eagle, by
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Divine Comedy (translated by H.F. Cary) by Dante Alighieri: Vestige of somewhat strange and rare: so paus'd
The sev'nfold band, arriving at the verge
Of a dun umbrage hoar, such as is seen,
Beneath green leaves and gloomy branches, oft
To overbrow a bleak and alpine cliff.
And, where they stood, before them, as it seem'd,
Tigris and Euphrates both beheld,
Forth from one fountain issue; and, like friends,
Linger at parting. "O enlight'ning beam!
O glory of our kind! beseech thee say
What water this, which from one source deriv'd
The Divine Comedy (translated by H.F. Cary) |
