| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lost Continent by Edgar Rice Burroughs: That he would be fool enough to venture it, I did not doubt.
We had gone inland for a mile or more, and were passing
through a park-like wood, when we came suddenly upon the
first human beings we had seen since we sighted the English
coast.
There were a score of men in the party. Hairy, half-naked
men they were, resting in the shade of a great tree. At the
first sight of us they sprang to their feet with wild yells,
seizing long spears that had lain beside them as they
rested.
For a matter of fifty yards they ran from us as rapidly as
Lost Continent |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Schoolmistress and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov: said Startchenko, getting up. "It's not six yet, it's too early
to go to bed; I am off. Von Taunitz lives not far from here, only
a couple of miles from Syrnya. I shall go to see him and spend
the evening there. Constable, run and tell my coachman not to
take the horses out. And what are you going to do?" he asked
Lyzhin.
"I don't know; I expect I shall go to sleep."
The doctor wrapped himself in his fur coat and went out. Lyzhin
could hear him talking to the coachman and the bells beginning to
quiver on the frozen horses. He drove off.
"It is not nice for you, sir, to spend the night in here," said
The Schoolmistress and Other Stories |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Voice of the City by O. Henry: of himself, in perfect circles; the city man's feet,
denaturalized by rectangular streets and floors, carry
him ever away from himself.
The round eyes of childhood typify innocence;
the narrowed line of the flirt's optic proves the in-
vasion of art. The horizontal mouth is the mark of
determined cunning; who has not read Nature's most
spontaneous lyric in lips rounded for the candid kiss?
Beauty is Nature in perfection; circularity is its
chief attribute. Behold the full moon, the enchant-
ing golf ball, the domes of splendid temples, the
The Voice of the City |
