| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: effect upon Metak was electrical. From stealthy silence he
broke into harsh peals of laughter, and drawing his saber
danced to and fro before the girl, but whichever way he went
the point of the spear still threatened him.
Gradually the girl noticed a change in the tone of the crea-
ture's screams that was also reflected in the changing expres-
sion upon his hideous countenance. His hysterical laughter
was slowly changing into cries of rage while the silly leer upon
his face was supplanted by a ferocious scowl and upcurled
lips, which revealed the sharpened fangs beneath.
He now ran rapidly in almost to the spear's point, only to
Tarzan the Untamed |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The People That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs: had no idea where we were when at last I realized that the
Wieroo was weakening. One of the jo-oos gained on us and
succeeded in heading us, so that my captor had to turn in
toward the coast. Further and further they forced him to the
left; lower and lower he sank. More labored was his breathing,
and weaker the stroke of his once powerful wings. We were not
ten feet above the ground when they overtook us, and at the
edge of a forest. One of them seized the Wieroo by his right
wing, and in an effort to free himself, he loosed his grasp
upon me, dropping me to earth. Like a frightened ecca I
leaped to my feet and raced for the sheltering sanctuary of the
The People That Time Forgot |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tapestried Chamber by Walter Scott: sleep after the early hour at which their duty usually commands
them to be alert."
Yet the explanation which Lord Woodville thus offered to the
company seemed hardly satisfactory to his own mind, and it was in
a fit of silence and abstraction that he waited the return of the
General. It took place near an hour after the breakfast bell had
rung. He looked fatigued and feverish. His hair, the powdering
and arrangement of which was at this time one of the most
important occupations of a man's whole day, and marked his
fashion as much as in the present time the tying of a cravat, or
the want of one, was dishevelled, uncurled, void of powder, and
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