| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: his rows of glistening fangs bared by snarling, backdrawn lips.
With a gesture I silenced him, and together we drew aside into
another corridor a few paces farther on.
Here we waited; nor did we have long to wait, for presently we
saw the shadows of two men fall upon the floor of the main corridor
athwart the doorway of our hiding place. Very cautiously they were
moving now--the accidental clank that had alarmed me was not repeated.
Presently they came opposite our station; nor was I surprised to
see that the two were Lakor and his companion of the guardroom.
The Warlord of Mars |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Works of Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson: other conveniences, and that he whose pride was
unluckily associated with laziness, ignorance, or
cowardice, needed only to pay the hire of a panegyrist,
and he might be regaled with periodical eulogies;
might determine, at leisure, what virtue or science
he would be pleased to appropriate, and be lulled in
the evening with soothing serenades, or waked in the
morning by sprightly gratulations.
The happiness which mortals receive from the
celebration of beneficence which never relieved,
eloquence which never persuaded, or elegance which
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Betty Zane by Zane Grey: "The Eagle is free," said the Indian girl in her low, musical voice.
"You have brought him home to us. Come," said Betty taking the hand of the
trembling maiden.
The settlers crowded round Isaac and greeted him warms while they plied him
with innumerable questions. Was he free? Who was the Indian girl? Had he run
off with her? Were the Indians preparing for war?
On the way to the Colonel's house Isaac told briefly of his escape from the
Wyandots, of his capture by Cornplanter, and of his rescue. He also mentioned
the preparations for war he had seen in Cornplanter's camp, and Girty's story
of Col. Crawford's death.
"How does it come that you have the Indian girl with you?" asked Col. Zane as
Betty Zane |
