| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: go hungry, because Tarzan's heart is turning to water by con-
tact with the soft, weak creatures of civilization." But yet he
smiled, nor was he sorry that he had given way to the dic-
tates of a kindly impulse.
As Tarzan tore the flesh from that portion of the kill he had
retained for himself his eyes were taking in each detail of the
scene below. He saw the avidity with which Numa devoured
the carcass; he noted with growing admiration the finer points
of the beast, and also the cunning construction of the trap.
The ordinary lion pit with which Tarzan was familiar had
stakes imbedded in the bottom, upon whose sharpened points
Tarzan the Untamed |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Poems of William Blake by William Blake: Nothing remains; O maid I tell thee, when I pass away.
It is to tenfold life, to love, to peace, and raptures holy:
Unseen descending, weigh my light wings upon balmy flowers:
And court the fair eyed dew, to take me to her shining tent
The weeping virgin, trembling kneels before the risen sun.
Till we arise link'd in a golden band and never part:
But walk united bearing food to all our tender flowers.
Dost thou O little cloud? I fear that I am not like thee:
For I walk through the vales of Har, and smell the sweetest flowers:
But I feed not the little flowers: I hear the warbling birds,
But I feed not the warbling birds, they fly and seek their food:
Poems of William Blake |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson: Greenock, is said to have been the heir to both the estate and the
baronetcy; he claimed neither, which casts a doubt upon the fact,
but he had pride enough himself, and taught enough pride to his
family, for any station or descent in Christendom. He had four
daughters. One married an Edinburgh writer, as I have it on a
first account - a minister, according to another - a man at least
of reasonable station, but not good enough for the Campbells of
Auchenbreck; and the erring one was instantly discarded. Another
married an actor of the name of Adcock, whom (as I receive the
tale) she had seen acting in a barn; but the phrase should perhaps
be regarded rather as a measure of the family annoyance, than a
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