| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: departing. But he took care, at the same time, to lay himself out
to the very best advantage whenever he was in her presence; to be
more witty, more eloquent, more romantic, more full of wonderful
tales than he ever yet had been. The cunning Don had found himself
foiled in his first tactic; and he was now trying another, and a
far more formidable one. In the first place, Rose deserved a very
severe punishment, for having dared to refuse the love of a Spanish
nobleman; and what greater punishment could he inflict than
withdrawing the honor of his attentions, and the sunshine of his
smiles? There was conceit enough in that notion, but there was
cunning too; for none knew better than the Spaniard, that women,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Beasts of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: screaming in hysterical terror, bolted forward toward
the forecastle.
For the moment Tarzan's attention was distracted by the
two men before him, so that he could not at the time pursue
the Russian. About him the apes and Mugambi were battling
with the balance of the Russian's party.
Beneath the terrible ferocity of the beasts the men were soon
scampering in all directions--those who still lived to scamper,
for the great fangs of the apes of Akut and the tearing talons
of Sheeta already had found more than a single victim.
Four, however, escaped and disappeared into the forecastle,
The Beasts of Tarzan |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Professor by Charlotte Bronte: them at leisure and closely, and had seen the plain texture of
truth under the embroidery of appearance; nor could he,
keen-sighted as he was, penetrate into my heart, search my
brain, and read my peculiar sympathies and antipathies; he had
not known me long enough, or well enough, to perceive how low my
feelings would ebb under some influences, powerful over most
minds; how high, how fast they would flow under other influences,
that perhaps acted with the more intense force on me, because
they acted on me alone. Neither could he suspect for an instant
the history of my communications with Mdlle. Reuter; secret to
him and to all others was the tale of her strange infatuation;
The Professor |
