| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Land of Footprints by Stewart Edward White: remarkable. Tried out both the old-fashioned soft point bullets
and the sharp Spitzer bullets, but find the latter far the more
effective. In fact the paralyzing shock given by the Spitzer is
almost beyond belief. African animals are notably tenacious of
life; but the Springfield dropped nearly half the animals dead
with one shot; a most unusual record, as every sportsman will
recognize. The bullets seemed on impact always to flatten
slightly at the base, the point remaining intact-to spin widely
on the axis, and to plunge off at an angle. This action of course
depended on the high velocity. The requisite velocity, however
seemed to keep up within all shooting ranges. A kongoni I killed
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: low birth, and the memory of the great love she had
cherished all these long and dreary months.
And these two fought out their battle in the girl's
breast. In those few brief moments of bewilderment
and indecision it seemed to Bertrade de Montfort that
ten years passed above her head, and when she reached
her final resolution she was no longer a young girl but
a grown woman who, with the weight of a mature
deliberation, had chosen the path which she would
travel to the end--to the final goal, however sweet or
however bitter.
The Outlaw of Torn |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne: attentively watching that part of the enclosure against the hill, at which
an attack might be expected.
The settlers awaited Top's return with much anxiety. A little before
eleven o'clock, Cyrus Harding and the reporter, rifle in hand, were behind
the gate, ready to open it at the first bark of their dog.
They did not doubt that if Top had arrived safely at Granite House, Neb
would have sent him back immediately.
They had both been there for about ten minutes, when a report was heard,
followed by repeated barks.
The engineer opened the gate, and seeing smoke a hundred feet off in the
wood, he fired in that direction.
The Mysterious Island |
