| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: In all his life Tarzan of the Apes had been obliged to ac-
knowledge but few obligations. He won his way through his
savage world by the might of his own muscle, the superior
keenness of his five senses and his God-given power to reason.
Tonight the greatest of all obligations had been placed upon
him -- his life had been saved by another and Tarzan shook
his head and growled, for it had been saved by one whom he
hated above all others.
Finding the Airplane
Tarzan of the Apes, returning from a successful hunt, with
the body of Bara, the deer, across one sleek, brown shoul-
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad: hurt. It maddened her. As a little girl she had often faced with
blazing eyes the irascible licensed victualler in defence of her
brother. Nothing now in Mrs Verloc's appearance could lead one to
suppose that she was capable of a passionate demonstration.
She finished her dishing-up. The table was laid in the parlour.
Going to the foot of the stairs, she screamed out "Mother!" Then
opening the glazed door leading to the shop, she said quietly
"Adolf!" Mr Verloc had not changed his position; he had not
apparently stirred a limb for an hour and a half. He got up
heavily, and came to his dinner in his overcoat and with his hat
on, without uttering a word. His silence in itself had nothing
The Secret Agent |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy: had known before and only forgotten since, while
whatever he heard that seemed to contradict it,
he would take no notice of, as he thought that he
simply had not understood the real meaning.
And from that time Stepan was a different
man.
IV
STEPAN had been very submissive and meek ever
since he came to the prison, but now he made the
prison authorities and all his fellow-prisoners
wonder at the change in him. Without being or-
The Forged Coupon |
