| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: sweep with a brown hand first toward the north, then west, and
then south again. "For there," and he pointed due west, "is
much hunting; but between lies a great place where there is no
food and no water, so they must go that way," and again he
swung his hand through the half-circle that explained to
Tarzan the great detour the apes made to come to their hunt-
ing ground to the west.
That was all right for the Mangani, who are lazy and do not
care to move rapidly; but for Tarzan the straight road would
be the best. He would cross the dry country and come to the
good hunting in a third of the time that it would take to go far
Tarzan the Untamed |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates: "Carry it carefully."
"Yes, sir.
"Without moving, we all observed one another, the eyes looking
sideways. You see, the tray bore a jig-saw. When I had left on
the previous Saturday for a week-end visit, we had done the top
right-hand corner and half what looked as if it must be the left
side. Most of this we had done on Friday evening; but artificial
light is inclined to militate against the labourer, and at eleven
o'clock Berry had sworn twice, shown us which pieces were
missing, and related the true history of poor Agatha Glynde, who
spent more than a fortnight over 'David Copperfield' before she
The Brother of Daphne |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, etc. by Oscar Wilde: as they were, with their heavy, hob-nailed shoes, and their awkward
gait, they brought a little of a ready with them. He felt that
they had lived with Nature, and that she had taught them peace. He
envied them all that they did not know.
By the time he had reached Belgrave Square the sky was a faint
blue, and the birds were beginning to twitter in the gardens.
CHAPTER III
WHEN Lord Arthur woke it was twelve o'clock, and the midday sun was
streaming through the ivory-silk curtains of his room. He got up
and looked out of the window. A dim haze of heat was hanging over
the great city, and the roofs of the houses were like dull silver.
|
