| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Land that Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs: miles away winter lay upon the storm-tossed ocean, and that snow
might be falling all about Caprona; but no snow could ever
penetrate the damp, hot atmosphere of the great crater.
We had to go quite a bit farther than usual before we could
surround a little bunch of antelope, and as I was helping drive
them, I saw a fine red deer a couple of hundred yards behind me.
He must have been asleep in the long grass, for I saw him rise
and look about him in a bewildered way, and then I raised my gun
and let him have it. He dropped, and I ran forward to finish him
with the long thin knife, which one of the men had given me; but
just as I reached him, he staggered to his feet and ran on for
The Land that Time Forgot |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Hiero by Xenophon: action comes, and it is imperative to expedite a force by land or sea,
at such a crisis it will not do for us to entrust the affair to easy-
goers.
[17] Or, "curb the over-proud in sap and blood."
Further than that, the man who is a tyrant must have mercenaries, and
of all the burdens which the citizens are called upon to bear there is
none more onerous than this, since nothing will induce them to believe
these people are supported by the tyrant to add to his and their
prestige,[18] but rather for the sake of his own selfishness and
greed.
[18] Reading with Breit. {eis timas}, or if the vulg. {isotimous},
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: mon the besiegers to the assault.
This he could not now delay in doing. All must be over
by the time that the Russian troops should come in sight of
Irkutsk. Ogareff's arrangements were made, and on this
evening a note fell from the top of the earthworks into
Sangarre's hands.
On the next day, that is to say during the hours of dark-
ness from the 5th to the 6th of October, at two o'clock in
the morning, Ivan Ogareff had resolved to deliver up
Irkutsk.
CHAPTER XIV
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