| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells: something less familiar. And then came another cry from far away
over the heat-stripped tree-tops, a less familiar cry. It was
repeated. Was that perhaps some craving leopard, a tiger cat, a
panther?--
"HUNT, HUNT"; that might be a deer.
Then suddenly an angry chattering came from the dark trees quite
close at hand. A monkey? . . .
These great, scarce visible, sweeping movements through the air were
bats. . . .
Of course, the day jungle is the jungle asleep. This was its waking
hour. Now the deer were arising from their forms, the bears
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Poems of Goethe, Bowring, Tr. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: TITLE DATE,
ROMANCES AND NOVELS:--
Sorrows of Werther............................. 1774
The Elective Affinities........................ 1809
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship............... 1777Ä96
Wilhelm Meister's Wanderings................... 1807Ä29
Conversations of German Emigrants.............. 1793Ä5
Notes on Winckelmann.............................. 1805
Life of Philip Hackert............................ 1810-11
Life of Benvenuto Cellini (Translation)........... 1796Ä1803
Autobiography..................................... 1811Ä31
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from From London to Land's End by Daniel Defoe: positively ordered that, like a common malefactor, he should die at
the gallows. After he was hanged, his friends desiring to have him
buried at Salisbury, the bishop would not consent that he should be
buried in the cathedral unless, as a farther mark of infamy, his
friends would submit to this condition--viz., that the silken
halter in which he was hanged should be hanged up over his grave in
the church as a monument of his crime; which was accordingly done,
and there it is to be seen to this day.
The putting this halter up here was not so wonderful to me as it
was that the posterity of that lord, who remained in good rank some
time after, should never prevail to have that mark of infamy taken
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