| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: terror Meriem found herself wondering at the tenacity of life
which the hit man displayed. His eyes were closed, his head
dropped forward upon his breast, his hands hung limply before him.
Yet still he stood there upon his feet, though he reeled horribly.
It was not until the third bullet had found its mark within his
body that he lunged forward upon his face. Then Malbihn
approached him, and with an oath kicked him viciously. Then he
returned once more to Meriem. Again he seized her, and at the
same instant the flaps of the tent opened silently and a tall
white man stood in the aperture. Neither Meriem or Malbihn
saw the newcomer. The latter's back was toward him while his
The Son of Tarzan |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: him, and at length he grasps the plan of society with the
different human strata of which it is composed.
If he begins by admiring the procession of carriages on sunny
afternoons in the Champs-Elysees, he soon reaches the further
stage of envying their owners. Unconsciously, Eugene had served
his apprenticeship before he went back to Angouleme for the long
vacation after taking his degrees as bachelor of arts and
bachelor of law. The illusions of childhood had vanished, so also
had the ideas he brought with him from the provinces; he had
returned thither with an intelligence developed, with loftier
ambitions, and saw things as they were at home in the old manor
Father Goriot |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from 1492 by Mary Johntson: The place was novel, the day's task not hard, the Admiral
and his captains complaisant. We had leisure and island
company. To many it was happiness enough. While we
stopped at Gornera we were at least not drifting upon lodestone,
equator fire and chaos!
Here on Gomera might be studied the three Pinzon brothers.
Vicente was a good, courageous captain, Francisco a
good pilot, and a courageous, seldom-speaking man. But
Martin Alonso, the eldest, was the prime mover in all their
affairs. He was skillful navigator like his brothers and
courageous like them, but not silent like Francisco, and
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