| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Jungle Tales of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: frightful lamentation, working themselves into a joyous
hysteria which far transcended the happy misery derived
by their more civilized prototypes who make a business of
dividing their time between the movies and the neighborhood
funerals of friends and strangers--especially strangers.
From a tree overhanging the palisade, Tarzan watched
all that passed within the village. He saw the frenzied
women tantalizing the great lion with sticks and stones.
The cruelty of the blacks toward a captive always induced
in Tarzan a feeling of angry contempt for the Gomangani.
Had he attempted to analyze this feeling he would have
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: paper rags, and waved it gloriously in the air. 'This comes from
America,' he cried, 'six thousand leagues away!' And the wine-shop
audience looked upon it with a certain thrill.
I soon became a popular figure, and was known for miles in the
country. OU'ST QUE VOUS ALLEZ? was changed for me into QUOI, VOUS
RENTREZ AU MONASTIER and in the town itself every urchin seemed to
know my name, although no living creature could pronounce it. There
was one particular group of lace-makers who brought out a chair for
me whenever I went by, and detained me from my walk to gossip. They
were filled with curiosity about England, its language, its religion,
the dress of the women, and were never weary of seeing the Queen's
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: special branch of commerce. There was the iron quarter,
the furriers' quarter, the woolen quarter, the quarter of the
wood merchants, the weavers' quarter, the dried fish quar-
ter, etc. Some booths were even built of fancy materials,
some of bricks of tea, others of masses of salt meat -- that
is to say, of samples of the goods which the owners thus
announced were there to the purchasers -- a singular, and
somewhat American, mode of advertisement.
In the avenues and long alleys there was already a large
assemblage of people -- the sun, which had risen at four
o'clock, being well above the horizon -- an extraordinary
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