| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Silas Marner by George Eliot: like, as you didn't see lights i' the stables, nor hear the stamping
o' the hosses, nor the cracking o' the whips, and howling, too, if
it's tow'rt daybreak. "Cliff's Holiday" has been the name of it
ever sin' I were a boy; that's to say, some said as it was the
holiday Old Harry gev him from roasting, like. That's what my
father told me, and he was a reasonable man, though there's folks
nowadays know what happened afore they were born better nor they
know their own business."
"What do you say to that, eh, Dowlas?" said the landlord, turning
to the farrier, who was swelling with impatience for his cue.
"There's a nut for _you_ to crack."
Silas Marner |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: opening off on the right, and at the farther end one of those
strange inclined planes would have wound down to still lower depths.
I started violently as these conceptions occurred to me, for
there was more in them than the blocks themselves had supplied.
How did I know that this level should have been far underground?
How did I know that the plane leading upward should have been
behind me? How did I know that the long subterrene passage to
the Square of Pillars ought to lie on the left one level above
me?
How did I know that the room of machines and the rightward-leading
tunnel to the central archives ought to lie two levels below?
Shadow out of Time |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Beasts of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: make this purpose plain to the anthropoid if it were to serve
him in the way he hoped.
"I am Tarzan of the Apes," he said, "Mighty hunter. Mighty fighter.
By the great water I spared Akut's life when I might have taken it
and become king of the tribe of Akut. Now I have saved Akut from
death beneath the rending fangs of Sheeta.
"When Akut or the tribe of Akut is in danger, let them
call to Tarzan thus"--and the ape-man raised the hideous
cry with which the tribe of Kerchak had been wont to summon
its absent members in times of peril.
"And," he continued, "when they hear Tarzan call to them,
The Beasts of Tarzan |
