| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: glance rested upon the lithe figure of the dead king's young mate
as she cast admiring glances at her lord's successor the call of
blood would not be denied. With a farewell glance toward his
beloved Korak he turned and followed the she ape into the
labyrinthine mazes of the wood.
After Korak had left the village of the blacks following his
last thieving expedition, the screams of his victim and those of
the other women and children had brought the warriors in from
the forest and the river. Great was the excitement and hot
was the rage of the men when they learned that the white devil
had again entered their homes, frightened their women and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Theaetetus by Plato: the affections and between the reason and the passions should also be
recognized by it.
Its sphere is supposed to be narrowed to the individual soul; but it cannot
be thus separated in fact. It goes back to the beginnings of things, to
the first growth of language and philosophy, and to the whole science of
man. There can be no truth or completeness in any study of the mind which
is confined to the individual. The nature of language, though not the
whole, is perhaps at present the most important element in our knowledge of
it. It is not impossible that some numerical laws may be found to have a
place in the relations of mind and matter, as in the rest of nature. The
old Pythagorean fancy that the soul 'is or has in it harmony' may in some
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: company were really Lady Drew's equals, they were greater and
lesser after the manner of all things in our world. Once I
remember there was a Prince, with a real live gentleman in
attendance, and that was a little above our customary levels and
excited us all, and perhaps raised our expectations unduly.
Afterwards, Rabbits, the butler, came into my mother's room
downstairs, red with indignation and with tears in his eyes.
"Look at that!" gasped Rabbits. My mother was speechless with
horror. That was a sovereign, a mere sovereign, such as you
might get from any commoner!
After Company, I remember, came anxious days, for the poor old
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