| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: voice, above the noise of propeller, engine and exhaust, he
screamed a few words of instruction into her ear.
As the girl grasped the significance of his words she paled,
but her lips set in a hard line and her eyes shone with a sud-
den fire of determination as she dropped the plane to within
a few feet of the ground and at the opposite end of the
meadow from the blacks and then at full speed bore down
upon the savages. So quickly the plane came that Usanga's
men had no time to escape it after they realized its menace.
It touched the ground just as it struck among them and mowed
through them, a veritable juggernaut of destruction. When
Tarzan the Untamed |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence: "Morel," said Miriam. "No, we won't come in, but we should
like to go by the mill-pond."
"Yes--yes, do. Do you fish, Mr. Morel?"
"No," said Paul.
"Because if you do you might come and fish any time,"
said Miss Limb. "We scarcely see a soul from week's end to week's end.
I should be thankful."
"What fish are there in the pond?" he asked.
They went through the front garden, over the sluice,
and up the steep bank to the pond, which lay in shadow, with its
two wooded islets. Paul walked with Miss Limb.
Sons and Lovers |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Emma by Jane Austen: might see him again, which makes this day's news doubly welcome.
It has been completely unexpected. That is, I always had a strong
persuasion he would be here again soon, I was sure something
favourable would turn up--but nobody believed me. He and Mrs. Weston
were both dreadfully desponding. `How could he contrive to come?
And how could it be supposed that his uncle and aunt would spare
him again?' and so forth--I always felt that something would happen
in our favour; and so it has, you see. I have observed, Mrs. Elton,
in the course of my life, that if things are going untowardly one month,
they are sure to mend the next."
"Very true, Mr. Weston, perfectly true. It is just what I used
Emma |
