| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: grinning hideously, but he did not rise from his kill.
Then Tarzan fitted an arrow to his bow, and drawing the
slim shaft far back let drive with all the force of the
tough wood that only he could bend. As the arrow sank
deeply into his side, Numa leaped to his feet with a
roar of mingled rage and pain. He leaped futilely at
the grinning ape-man, tore at the protruding end of the
shaft, and then, springing into the trail, paced back
and forth beneath his tormentor. Again Tarzan loosed a
swift bolt. This time the missile, aimed with care,
lodged in the lion's spine. The great creature halted
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from 1492 by Mary Johntson: Else surely they would have taken him, as they were taking
this one's son and that one's son! To hear her you would
think of an ogre--of Polyphemus in the cave--reaching
out fatal hand for this or that fattened body. Nothing then,
she said, to do but to pinch and save so that one might
pay the priest for masses! She told me with great eyes
that a hundred leagues west of Canaries one came to a sea
forest where all the trees were made of water growing up
high and spreading out like branches and leaves, and that
this forest was filled with sea wolves and serpents and
strange beasts all made of sea water, but they could sting
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Chance by Joseph Conrad: He said to his wife with a solemnity I can easily imagine "You ought
to undertake that task, my dear. You have known his wife after all.
That's something at any rate." On the other hand the fear of
exposing Mrs. Fyne to some nasty rebuff worried him exceedingly.
Mrs. Fyne on her side gave way to despondency. Success seemed
impossible. Here was a woman for more than five years in charge of
the girl and apparently enjoying the complete confidence of the
father. What, that would be effective, could one say, without
proofs, without . . . This Mr. de Barral must be, Mrs. Fyne
pronounced, either a very stupid or a downright bad man, to neglect
his child so.
Chance |
