| 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: Behind him he could hear the voice of Achmet Zek crying
to him to halt; but Werper only dug the spurs deeper
into the bleeding sides of his panting mount. Two
hundred yards within the forest a broken branch lay
across the trail. It was a small thing that a horse
might ordinarily take in his natural stride without
noticing its presence; but Werper's horse was jaded,
his feet were heavy with weariness, and as the branch
caught between his front legs he stumbled, was unable
to recover himself, and went down, sprawling in the
trail.
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Arrow of Gold by Joseph Conrad: off themselves. And they don't even know, they don't even suspect
what they are showing you. Certain confidences - they don't see it
- are the bitterest kind of insult. I suppose Azzolati imagines
himself a noble beast of prey. Just as some others imagine
themselves to be most delicate, noble, and refined gentlemen. And
as likely as not they would trade on a woman's troubles - and in
the end make nothing of that either. Idiots!"
The utter absence of all anger in this spoken meditation gave it a
character of touching simplicity. And as if it had been truly only
a meditation we conducted ourselves as though we had not heard it.
Mills began to speak of his experiences during his visit to the
The Arrow of Gold |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories by Mark Twain: man who could shed tears over the tomb of Adam must be an idiot."
But Mark Twain may now add a much more glorious instance to his string
of trophies. The SATURDAY REVIEW, in its number of October 8th,
reviews his book of travels, which has been republished in England,
and reviews it seriously. We can imagine the delight of the humorist
in reading this tribute to his power; and indeed it is so amusing
in itself that he can hardly do better than reproduce the article
in full in his next monthly Memoranda.
(Publishing the above paragraph thus, gives me a sort of authority
for reproducing the SATURDAY REVIEW'S article in full in these pages.
I dearly wanted to do it, for I cannot write anything half so
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