| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: "Look," she whispered.
The man raised his eyes quickly in the direction of her gaze
to see the massive head of a great lion who was regarding them
from beyond a rocky projection at the first turning of the
gorge.
"Phew!" he exclaimed, "the beggars are everywhere."
"They do not go far from water do they," asked the girl
hopefully.
"I should imagine not," he replied; "a lion is not particularly
strong on endurance."
"Then he is a harbinger of hope," she exclaimed.
Tarzan the Untamed |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King Lear by William Shakespeare: wear;
But mice and rats, and such small deer,
Have been Tom's food for seven long year.
Beware my follower. Peace, Smulkin! peace, thou fiend!
Glou. What, hath your Grace no better company?
Edg. The prince of darkness is a gentleman!
Modo he's call'd, and Mahu.
Glou. Our flesh and blood is grown so vile, my lord,
That it doth hate what gets it.
Edg. Poor Tom 's acold.
Glou. Go in with me. My duty cannot suffer
King Lear |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from On Horsemanship by Xenophon: particular things;[3] what we are now maintaining is that the owner
ought to teach his own horse, and we will explain how this teaching is
to be done.
[2] Or, "treating of a topic already handled."
[3] i.e. possessed a certain ability at the date of purchase.
With a horse entirely ignorant of leaping, the best way is to take him
by the leading rein, which hangs loose, and to get across the trench
yourself first, and then to pull tight on the leading-rein, to induce
him to leap across. If he refuses, some one with a whip or switch
should apply it smartly. The result will be that the horse will clear
at a bound, not the distance merely, but a far larger space than
On Horsemanship |
