| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: here, but it is one of their legends and it is borne out by the
fact that there is not sufficient rainfall here to support
vegeta-
tion.
"They are peculiar people in many respects, not only in
their form of worship and religious rites but also in that they
breed lions as other people breed cattle. You have seen how
they use some of these lions but the majority of them they
fatten and eat. At first, I imagine, they ate lion meat as a part
of their religious ceremony but after many generations they
came to crave it so that now it is practically the only flesh
Tarzan the Untamed |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia by Samuel Johnson: act as beings under the constant sense of some known inferiority
that fills their minds with rancour and their tongues with censure.
They are peevish at home and malevolent abroad, and, as the outlaws
of human nature, make it their business and their pleasure to
disturb that society which debars them from its privileges. To
live without feeling or exciting sympathy, to be fortunate without
adding to the felicity of others, or afflicted without tasting the
balm of pity, is a state more gloomy than solitude; it is not
retreat but exclusion from mankind. Marriage has many pains, but
celibacy has no pleasures."
"What then is to be done?" said Rasselas. "The more we inquire the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy: ous?"
"Not if it is this one. He is a holy man. You
may ask anybody, they will all tell you so."
"Why has he been sent here?"
The governor smiled. "He had committed six
murders, and yet he is a holy man. I go bail for
him."
Mitia Smokovnikov took Stepan, now a bald-
headed, lean, tanned man, with him on his journey.
On their way Stepan took care of Smokovnikov,
like his own child, and told him his story; told
The Forged Coupon |
