| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: the wind rose to a fair gale, and we simply raced away
from our pursuers as if they were standing still. Juag
was so tickled that he forgot all about his hunger and
thirst. I think that he had never been entirely recon-
ciled to the heathenish invention which I called a
sail, and that down in the bottom of his heart he
believed that the paddlers would eventually overhaul
us; but now he couldn't praise it enough.
We had a strong gale for a considerable time, and
eventually dropped Hooja's fleet so far astern that we
could no longer discern them. And then--ah, I shall
Pellucidar |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from In a German Pension by Katherine Mansfield: talking about."
"You do know--you know far better than I. You've simply played with Victor
in my presence that I may feel worse. You've tormented me--you've led me
on--offering me everything and nothing at all. It's been a spider-and-fly
business from first to last--and I've never for one moment been ignorant of
that--and I've never for one moment been able to withstand it."
He turned round deliberately.
"Do you suppose that when you asked me to pin your flowers into your
evening gown--when you let me come into your bedroom when Victor was out
while you did your hair--when you pretended to be a baby and let me feed
you with grapes--when you have run to me and searched in all my pockets for
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: account he expected from me would be highly displeasing." But he
insisted in commanding me to let him know the best and the worst.
I told him "he should be obeyed." I owned "that the HOUYHNHNMS
among us, whom we called horses, were the most generous and
comely animals we had; that they excelled in strength and
swiftness; and when they belonged to persons of quality, were
employed in travelling, racing, or drawing chariots; they were
treated with much kindness and care, till they fell into
diseases, or became foundered in the feet; but then they were
sold, and used to all kind of drudgery till they died; after
which their skins were stripped, and sold for what they were
Gulliver's Travels |
