The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: land clan. Further, they said that no good man went in
company with a jalok--and that by this line of reason-
ing I certainly was a bad man.
I saw that they were not naturally a war-like tribe,
for they preferred that I leave in peace rather than
force them to attack me, whereas the Sarians would
have killed a suspicious stranger first and inquired into
his purposes later.
I think Raja sensed their antagonism, for he kept tug-
ging at his leash and growling ominously. They were a
bit in awe of him, and kept at a safe distance. It was
Pellucidar |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Rescue by Joseph Conrad: left him so calm, his glance so lucid, his mien so composed that
it was difficult to believe the man's heart had undergone within
the last second the trial of humiliation and of danger. He smiled
sadly:
"Well, young man," he asked with a kind of good-humoured
resignation, "what is it you have there? A knife or a pistol?"
"A pistol," said Carter. "Are you surprised, Captain?" He spoke
with heat because a sense of regret was stealing slowly within
him, as stealthily, as irresistibly as the flowing tide. "Who
began these tricks?" He withdrew his hand, empty, and raised his
voice. "You are up to something I can't make out. You--you are
The Rescue |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe: comfort of my assistance, and of so faithful a counsellor and
such a companion in his misery. But still he put me in mind
of what I had mentioned before, namely, that there might be
some way to get off before he went, and that it might be
possible to avoid going at all, which he said would be much
better. I told him he should see, and be fully satisfied, that I
would do my utmost in that part too, and if it did not succeed,
yet that I would make good the rest.
We parted after this long conference with such testimonies of
kindness and affection as I thought were equal, if not superior,
to that at our parting at Dunstable; and now I saw more plainly
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