| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tom Sawyer, Detective by Mark Twain: My land, they all busted out in a howl, and you never see
the like of that excitement since the day you was born.
And Tom he made a jump for Jubiter and snaked off his goggles
and his false whiskers, and there was the murdered man,
sure enough, just as alive as anybody! And Aunt Sally
and Benny they went to hugging and crying and kissing
and smothering old Uncle Silas to that degree he was more
muddled and confused and mushed up in his mind than he ever
was before, and that is saying considerable. And next,
people begun to yell:
"Tom Sawyer! Tom Sawyer! Shut up everybody, and let him
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The War in the Air by H. G. Wells: beside him.
Then blinding flames squirted out in all directions from the
point of impact, and the little man who had jumped became, for an
instant, a flash of fire and vanished--vanished absolutely. The
people running out into the road took preposterous clumsy leaps,
then flopped down and lay still, with their torn clothes
smouldering into flame. Then pieces of the archway began to
drop, and the lower masonry of the building to fall in with the
rumbling sound of coals being shot into a cellar. A faint
screaming reached Bert, and then a crowd of people ran out into
the street, one man limping and gesticulating awkwardly. He
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu by Sax Rohmer: "I knew as well as if I'd seen it with my own eyes that some
black business was afoot last night," he said. "And it was.
Within pistol-shot of us! Someone has got at Frank Norris West.
Inspector Weymouth has just been on the 'phone."
"Norris West!" I cried, "the American aviator--and inventor--"
"Of the West aero-torpedo--yes. He's been offering it to the English
War Office, and they have delayed too long."
I got out of bed.
"What do you mean?"
"I mean that the potentialities have attracted the attention
of Dr. Fu-Manchu!"
The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu |
