| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: of artillery behind the opposing lines. As the shells from
both sides were falling well back of the trenches, they consti-
tuted no menace to Tarzan; but the noise of them and that
of the rifle fire had a marked effect upon Numa who crouched,
trembling, close to the Tarmangani as though seeking protec-
tion.
Cautiously the two beasts moved forward toward the listen-
ing post of the Germans. In one hand Tarzan carried the
bomb the English had given him, in the other was the coiled
rope attached to the lion. At last Tarzan could see the posi-
tion a few yards ahead. His keen eyes picked out the head
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Human Drift by Jack London: efficient, but not brilliant. His was a general all-round
efficiency. He was efficient at the law; he was efficient at
college; he was efficient as a sailor; he was efficient in the
matter of pride, when that pride was no more than the pride of a
forecastle hand, at twelve dollars a month, in his seaman's task
well done, in the smart sailing of his captain, in the clearness
and trimness of his ship.
There is no sailor whose cockles of the heart will not warm to
Dana's description of the first time he sent down a royal yard.
Once or twice he had seen it done. He got an old hand in the crew
to coach him. And then, the first anchorage at Monterey, being
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence: "I wait," Mrs. Morel said to herself--"I wait, and what I wait
for can never come."
Then she straightened the kitchen, lit the lamp, mended the fire,
looked out the washing for the next day, and put it to soak.
After which she sat down to her sewing. Through the long hours her
needle flashed regularly through the stuff. Occasionally she sighed,
moving to relieve herself. And all the time she was thinking
how to make the most of what she had, for the children's sakes.
At half-past eleven her husband came. His cheeks were very
red and very shiny above his black moustache. His head nodded slightly.
He was pleased with himself.
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