| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Monster Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs: that the natives had lied to him, and the more he
questioned the Dyak woman the more firmly convinced
he became that this was the fact.
The outcome of it was that von Horn finally decided
to make an attempt to follow the trail of the creature
that the woman had seen, and with this plan in view
persuaded Muda Saffir to arrange with the chief
of the long-house at which they then were to furnish
him with trackers and an escort of warriors,
promising them some splendid heads should they
be successful in overhauling Bulan and his pack.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from American Notes by Rudyard Kipling: interested in ward politics nightly congregate. They were not
pretty persons. Some of them were bloated, and they all swore
cheerfully till the heavy gold watch-chains on their fat stomachs
rose and fell again; but they talked over their liquor as men who
had power and unquestioned access to places of trust and profit.
The magazine writer discussed theories of government; these men
the practice. They had been there. They knew all about it.
They banged their fists on the table and spoke of political
"pulls," the vending of votes, and so forth. Theirs was not the
talk of village babblers reconstructing the affairs of the
nation, but of strong, coarse, lustful men fighting for spoil,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Forest until the king is captured."
Barney Custer shook his head despairingly.
"Won't you please believe that I am but a plain Ameri-
can?" he begged.
Upon the bole of a large wayside tree a fresh, new placard
stared them in the face. Emma von der Tann pointed at one
of the paragraphs.
"Gray eyes, brown hair, and a full reddish-brown beard,"
she read. "No matter who you may be," she said, "you are
safer off the highways of Lutha than on them until you can
find and use a razor."
The Mad King |
