| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Abdul, "for permitting us to escape so easily. Those in the
street say that we did not come that way--that we are still
within the building, and that those above, being too cowardly
to attack us, are attempting to deceive them into believing
that we have escaped. In a moment they will have fighting
of their own to attend to if they continue their brawling."
Presently those in the building gave up the search, and
returned to the cafe. A few remained in the street below,
smoking and talking.
Tarzan spoke to the girl, thanking her for the sacrifice she
had made for him, a total stranger.
The Return of Tarzan |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy: nose, the upturned feet, and the protruding eye-
balls; sobbing and sighing, and drying her tears at
long, regular intervals. A pretty girl of thirteen
was standing at her mother's side, with her eyes
and mouth wide open. A boy of eight clung to
his mother's skirt, and looked intensely at his dead
father without blinking.
From a door near them an official, an officer, a
doctor, and a clerk with documents, entered.
After them came a soldier, the one who had shot
the man. He stepped briskly along behind his
The Forged Coupon |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Land of Footprints by Stewart Edward White: "I want to take 'Winchi,'" said he. "Winchi" is his name for my
Winchester 405.
"Why?" we asked.
"If I can take Winchi, I will find the men," said he.
This was entirely voluntary on his part. He, as well as we, had
had a hard day, and he had made a double journey for part of it.
We gave him Winchi and he departed. Sometime after midnight he
returned with the missing men.
Perhaps a dozen times all told he volunteered for these special
services; once in particular, after a fourteen-hour day, he set
off at nine o'clock at night in a soaking rainstorm, wandered
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