| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Jungle Tales of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: and his face was laughing and very happy.
And then Tarzan dropped fearlessly among them, the boy
still upon his back, and deposited him before his mother.
Momaya, Ibeto, Rabba Kega, and Mbonga were all crowding
around the lad trying to question him at the same time.
Suddenly Momaya turned ferociously to fall upon Bukawai,
for the boy had told her all that he had suffered at
the hands of the cruel old man; but Bukawai was no longer
there--he had required no recourse to black art to assure
him that the vicinity of Momaya would be no healthful
place for him after Tibo had told his story, and now he
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Richard III by William Shakespeare: SHAKESPEARE IS COPYRIGHT 1990-1993 BY WORLD LIBRARY, INC., AND IS
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SCENE: England
King Richard the Third
ACT I. SCENE 1.
London. A street
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Virginian by Owen Wister: prairie-dog 'bout as often as she'll stand a bird. She's a
triflin' animal."
My anxiety to own the ducks caused me to pitch into the water
with all my clothes on, and subsequently crawl out a slippery,
triumphant, weltering heap. The Virginian's serious eyes had
rested upon this spectacle of mud; but he expressed nothing, as
usual.
"They ain't overly good eatin'," he observed, tying the birds to
his saddle. "They're divers."
"Divers!" I exclaimed. "Why didn't they dive?"
"I reckon they was young ones and hadn't experience."
The Virginian |
