| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: a dish of fresh fruit, and a bowl of milk beside which was a
little jug containing something which resembled marmalade.
So ravenous was she that she did not even wait for her com-
panion to reach the table, and as she ate she could have sworn
that never before had she tasted more palatable food. The
old woman came slowly and sat down on one of the benches
opposite her.
As she removed the smaller vessels from the larger and
arranged them before her on the table a crooked smile twisted
her lips as she watched the younger woman eat.
"Hunger is a great leveler," she said with a laugh.
Tarzan the Untamed |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Desert Gold by Zane Grey: had been of great benefit to Dick's father. The dry air, the heat,
and the quiet had made him, if not entirely a well man, certainly stronger
than he had been in many years.
"Belding, what was that terrible roar?" asked Mr. Gale. "We were
badly frightened until Miss Nell came to us. We feared it was an
earthquake."
"Well, I'll tell you, Mr. Gale, we've had some quakes here, but
none of them could hold a candle to this jar we just had."
Then Belding explained what had caused the explosion, and why it
had been set off so close to his property.
"It's an outrage, sir, an unspeakable outrage," declared Mr. Gale,
Desert Gold |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe: stronger in favour of what I am saying: namely, that the infection is
retained in bodies apparently well, and conveyed from them to those
they converse with, while it is known to neither the one nor the other.
Great were the confusions at that time upon this very account, and
when people began to be convinced that the infection was received in
this surprising manner from persons apparently well, they began to be
exceeding shy and jealous of every one that came near them. Once,
on a public day, whether a Sabbath-day or not I do not remember, in
Aldgate Church, in a pew full of people, on a sudden one fancied she
smelt an ill smell. Immediately she fancies the plague was in the pew,
whispers her notion or suspicion to the next, then rises and goes out of
A Journal of the Plague Year |
