| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: corral, and drive the herds in from the fields.
She saw her home plundered of all that represented
intrinsic worth in the eyes of the Arabs, and then she saw
the torch applied, and the flames lick up what remained.
And at last, when the raiders assembled after glutting
their fury and their avarice, and rode away with her
toward the north, she saw the smoke and the flames
rising far into the heavens until the winding of the trail
into the thick forests hid the sad view from her eyes.
As the flames ate their way into the living-room,
reaching out forked tongues to lick up the bodies of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Youth by Joseph Conrad: strength, of romance, of glamour--of youth! . . . A
flick of sunshine upon a strange shore, the time to re-
member, the time for a sigh, and--good-by!--Night--
Good-by . . .!"
He drank.
"Ah! The good old time--the good old time. Youth
and the sea. Glamour and the sea! The good, strong
sea, the salt, bitter sea, that could whisper to you and
roar at you and knock your breath out of you."
He drank again.
"By all that's wonderful, it is the sea, I believe, the sea
Youth |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum: "The matter is more serious than I suspected."
"You," said the Pumpkinhead, gloomily, "are liable to live for many years.
My life is necessarily short. So I must take advantage of the few days that
remain to me."
"There, there! Don't worry," answered the Scarecrow soothingly; "if you'll
keep quiet long enough for me to think, I'll try to find some way for us all
to escape."
So the others waited in patient silence while the Scarecrow walked to a
corner and stood with his
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face to the wall for a good five minutes. At the end of that time he faced
The Marvelous Land of Oz |
