| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Essays of Francis Bacon by Francis Bacon: whilst he is in the rising, and to balance himself
when he is placed. Use the memory of thy prede-
cessor, fairly and tenderly; for if thou dost not, it is
a debt will sure be paid when thou art gone. If
thou have colleagues, respect them, and rather call
them, when they look not for it, than exclude
them , when they have reason to look to be called.
Be not too sensible, or too remembering, of thy
place in conversation, and private answers to
suitors; but let it rather be said, When he sits in
place, he is another man.
Essays of Francis Bacon |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: heart stilled forever? It is unthinkable.
Ska, filled with suspicions, circled warily. Twice he almost
alighted upon the great, naked breast only to wheel suddenly
away; but the third time his talons touched the brown skin.
It was as though the contact closed an electric circuit that
instantaneously vitalized the quiet clod that had lain motion-
less so long. A brown hand swept downward from the brown
forehead and before Ska could raise a wing in flight he was in
the clutches of his intended victim.
Ska fought, but he was no match for even a dying Tarzan,
and a moment later the ape-man's teeth closed upon the
Tarzan the Untamed |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Spirit of the Border by Zane Grey: only a minister, far removed from a man of war and leader, as you claim to be,
but, sir, I curse you as a miserable coward. If I ever get back to
civilization I'll brand this inhuman coldness of yours, as the most infamous
and dastardly cowardice that ever disgraced a white man. You are worse than
Girty!"
Williamson turned a sickly yellow; he fumbled a second with the handle of his
tomahawk, but made no answer. The other bordermen maintained the same careless
composure. What to them was the raving of a mad preacher?
Jim saw it and turned baffled, fiercely angry, and hopeless. As he walked away
Jeff Lynn took his arm, and after they were clear of the crowd of frontiersmen
he said:
The Spirit of the Border |
