| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: the two men who alone, in all the world, might have saved
her, pass between the heavy hangings in an adjoining alcove
and disappear into a dark corridor.
As the door gave and the warriors rushed into the apartment
followed by the prince, the latter became immediately filled
with baffled rage, for the rooms were deserted except for the
dead body of the owner of the palace, and the still form of the
black slave, Otobu, where they lay stretched upon the floor of
the alcove.
The prince rushed to the windows and looked out, but as
the suite overlooked the barred den of lions from which, the
Tarzan the Untamed |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Recruit by Honore de Balzac: game of loto, and offered to find the box, on the ground that she
alone knew where it was, and then she disappeared.
"I am suffocating, my poor Brigitte," she cried, wiping the tears that
gushed from her eyes, now brilliant with fever, anxiety, and
impatience. "He does not come," she moaned, looking round the room
prepared for her son. "Here alone I can breathe, I can live! A few
minutes more and he MUST be here; for I know he is living. I am
certain of it, my heart says so. Don't you hear something, Brigitte? I
would give the rest of my life to know at this moment whether he were
still in prison, or out in the free country. Oh! I wish I could stop
thinking--"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad: The tide of darkness flowed on swiftly; and with tropical suddenness
a swarm of stars came out above the shadowy earth, while I lingered yet,
my hand resting lightly on my ship's rail as if on the shoulder of a
trusted friend. But, with all that multitude of celestial bodies staring
down at one, the comfort of quiet communion with her was gone for good.
And there were also disturbing sounds by this time--voices, footsteps forward;
the steward flitted along the main-deck, a busily ministering spirit;
a hand bell tinkled urgently under the poop deck....
I found my two officers waiting for me near the supper table,
in the lighted cuddy. We sat down at once, and as I helped
the chief mate, I said:
The Secret Sharer |
