| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lost Continent by Edgar Rice Burroughs: windows. I had outlined my plan to her, and she had assured
me that she could descend the ivy without assistance. In
fact, she smiled a trifle at my question.
Swinging myself outward, I began the descent, and had come
to within a few feet of the ground, being just opposite a
narrow window, when I was startled by a savage growl almost
in my ear, and then a great taloned paw darted from the
aperture to seize me, and I saw the snarling face of a lion
within the embrasure.
Releasing my hold upon the ivy, I dropped the re-maining
distance to the ground, saved from laceration only because
Lost Continent |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Edition of The Ambassadors by Henry James: of a condition as to which, later on, it will be seen, he found
cause to pull himself up; and he was to remember the moment duly
as the first step in a process. The central fact of the place was
neither more nor less, when analysed--and a pressure superficial
sufficed--than the fundamental impropriety of Chad's situation,
round about which they thus seemed cynically clustered.
Accordingly, since they took it for granted, they took for
granted all that was in connexion with it taken for granted at
Woollett--matters as to which, verily, he had been reduced with
Mrs. Newsome to the last intensity of silence. That was the
consequence of their being too bad to be talked about, and was
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: And he reviewed the birds, and said, 'How is it I see not the
hoopoe? is he then amongst the absent? I will surely torment him
with a severe torment; or I will surely slaughter him; or he shall
bring me obvious authority.'
And he tarried not long, and said, 'I have compassed what ye
compassed not; for I bring you from Seba a sure information: verily, I
found a woman ruling over them, and she was given all things, and
she had a mighty throne; and I found her and her people adoring the
sun instead of God, for Satan had made seemly to them their works, and
turned them from the path, so that they are not guided. Will they
not adore God who brings forth the secrets in the heavens, and knows
The Koran |
