| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Betty Zane by Zane Grey: moment over the clump of laurel bushes to his left, and that a pair of keen
eyes watched every move he made.
Unconscious of impending evil Isaac stopped and looked around him. Suddenly
above the musical babble of the brook and the rustle of the leaves by the
breeze came a repetition of the sound. He crouched close by the trunk of a
tree and strained his ears. All was quiet for some moments. Then he heard the
patter, patter of little hoofs coming down the stream. Nearer and nearer they
came. Sometimes they were almost inaudible and again he heard them clearly and
distinctly. Then there came a splashing and the faint hollow sound caused by
hard hoofs striking the stones in shallow water. Finally the sounds ceased.
Cautiously peering from behind the tree Isaac saw a doe standing on the bank
Betty Zane |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mucker by Edgar Rice Burroughs: shipshape here instid o' squabblin' amongst ourselves."
"Suit yourself," said Theriere, "it's all the same to us," and
his use of the objective pronoun seemed definitely to establish
the existence of his faction as a separate and distinct party.
Simms, from years of experience with his astute mate, was
wont to acquiesce in anything that Ward proposed, though he
had not the brains always to appreciate the purposes that
prompted Ward's suggestions. Now, therefore, he nodded his
approval of Squint Eye's proposal, feeling that whatever was
in Ward's mind would be more likely to work out to Skipper
Simms' interests than some unadvised act of Skipper Simms
The Mucker |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Monster Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs: had befallen us--we became separated."
"He will be safe," said Bududreen, "for two of my men
are waiting to guide you and the doctor to the ship in
case you returned to camp before I found you. Come,
we will hasten on to the harbor. Your father will be
worried if we are long delayed, and he is anxious to
make sail and escape before the Dyaks discover the
location of the Ithaca."
The man's story seemed plausible enough to Virginia,
although she could not repress a little pang of regret
that her father had been willing to go on to the harbor
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