| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Lamentable Tragedy of Locrine and Mucedorus by William Shakespeare: you think that I am so mad, to go seek my living in the
lands amongst the stones, briars, and bushes, and tear
my holy day apparel? not I, by your leave.
SEGASTO.
Why, I do not mean thou shalt.
MOUSE.
How then?
SEGASTO.
Why, thou shalt be my man, and wait upon me at the
court.
MOUSE.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: swayed with pent-up strength ready for action at any moment.
If little Lady Alice, hearing much talk of his doings and of his
promise in these latter times, thought of him now and then it is
a matter not altogether to be wondered at.
Such were the changes that three years had wrought. And from now
the story of his manhood really begins.
Perhaps in all the history of Devlen Castle, even at this, the
high tide of pride and greatness of the house of Beaumont, the
most notable time was in the early autumn of the year 1411, when
for five days King Henry IV was entertained by the Earl of
Mackworth. The King was at that time making a progress through
Men of Iron |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: what purpose they had in keeping her a prisoner. She knew that
man ate man, and she had expected to be eaten; but she had
been with them for some time now and no harm had befallen her.
She did not know that a runner had been dispatched to the distant
village of The Sheik to barter with him for a ransom. She did
not know, nor did Kovudoo, that the runner had never reached
his destination--that he had fallen in with the safari of
Jenssen and Malbihn and with the talkativeness of a native to
other natives had unfolded his whole mission to the black servants
of the two Swedes. These had not been long in retailing the matter
to their masters, and the result was that when the runner left
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