| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Herland by Charlotte Gilman: took turns throwing little stones at that thing, while one stayed
by as a setter-up; and they just popped that nut off, two times
out of three, without upsetting the sticks. Pleased as Punch they
were, too, and we pretended to be, but weren't.
We got very friendly over this game, but I told Terry we'd be
sorry if we didn't get off while we could, and then we begged for knives.
It was easy to show what we wanted to do, and they each proudly produced
a sort of strong clasp-knife from their pockets.
"Yes," we said eagerly, "that's it! Please--" We had learned
quite a bit of their language, you see. And we just begged for
those knives, but they would not give them to us. If we came a
Herland |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: country. Tarzan, he knew, had not the remotest idea of
whither they were going. By keeping at a safe distance
behind the laden warriors, they would have no
difficulty in following them home. Once at the
bungalow, Werper knew the way to the camp of Achmet
Zek. There was still another reason why he did not
wish to interfere with the Waziri--they were bearing
the great burden of treasure in the direction he wished
it borne. The farther they took it, the less the
distance that he and Achmet Zek would have to transport it.
He argued with the ape-man therefore, against the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mountains by Stewart Edward White: Towards sunset we ran up into rounded hills,
where we got out at every rise in order to ease the
horses, and where we hurried the old gentleman beyond
the limits of his Easterner's caution at every descent.
It grew dark. Dimly the road showed gray in the
twilight. We did not know how far exactly we were
to go, but imagined that sooner or later we would
top one of the small ridges to look across one of the
broad plateau plains to the lights of our station.
You see we had forgotten, in the midst of flatness,
that we were still over five thousand feet up. Then
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