| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: a silent noose dropped deftly about his neck. The main body
still was in plain sight, and as the frightened man voiced a
piercing shriek of terror, they looked back to see his body rise
as though by magic straight into the air and disappear amidst
the leafy foliage above.
For a moment the blacks stood paralyzed by astonishment
and fear; but presently the burly sergeant, Usanga, who led
them, started back along the trail at a run, calling to the
others
to follow him. Loading their guns as they came the blacks
ran to succor their fellow, and at Usanga's command they
Tarzan the Untamed |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Simple Soul by Gustave Flaubert: presently Nastasie Barette, wife of Leroux, made her appearance,
holding an infant in her arms, another child by the hand, while on her
left was a little cabin-boy with his hands in his pockets and his cap
on his ear.
At the end of fifteen minutes, Madame Aubain bade her go.
They always hung around the kitchen, or approached Felicite when she
and the children were out walking. The husband, however, did not show
himself.
Felicite developed a great fondness for them; she bought them a stove,
some shirts and a blanket; it was evident that they exploited her. Her
foolishness annoyed Madame Aubain, who, moreover did not like the
A Simple Soul |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy: of the crinkled battlements on the young turf of the quadrangles,
Jude thought he had never seen the place look more beautiful.
He came to the street in which he had first beheld Sue. The chair
she had occupied when, leaning over her ecclesiastical scrolls,
a hog-hair brush in her hand, her girlish figure had arrested the gaze
of his inquiring eyes, stood precisely in its former spot, empty.
It was as if she were dead, and nobody had been found capable of
succeeding her in that artistic pursuit. Hers was now the city phantom,
while those of the intellectual and devotional worthies who had
once moved him to emotion were no longer able to assert their
presence there.
Jude the Obscure |
