| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from 1492 by Mary Johntson: guttural speech could be made out, at least in substance.
They asked with a high, contemptuous look when we meant
to slay and eat them.
``They eat men's flesh, every Caribal of them! We saw
horrid things in Guadaloupe!''
Away from these men sat or stood seven women. ``They
were captives,'' said Sancho. ``Caribs bad ravished them
from other islands and they fled in Guadaloupe to us.''
These women, too, seemed more strongly fibred, courageous,
high of head than the Hayti women. There was among
them one to whom the others gave deference, a chieftainess,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: of the creepers clinging to the city walls; but to his intense
relief he found the stems as large around as a man's arm, and
the tendrils which had fastened themselves to the wall so
firmly fixed, that his weight upon the stem appeared to have
no appreciable effect upon them.
He heard Numa's baffled roar as the lion slipped downward
clawing futilely at the leafy creepers, and then with the agility
of the apes who had reared him, Tarzan bounded nimbly aloft
to the summit of the wall.
A few feet below him was the flat roof of the adjoining
building and as he dropped to it his back was toward the niche
Tarzan the Untamed |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Another Study of Woman by Honore de Balzac: wandering in search of a house where I might be taken in. Finding none
or driven away from those I came across, happily towards evening I
perceived a wretched little Polish farm, of which nothing can give you
any idea unless you have seen the wooden houses of Lower Normandy, or
the poorest farm-buildings of la Beauce. These dwellings consist of a
single room, with one end divided off by a wooden partition, the
smaller division serving as a store-room for forage.
"In the darkness of twilight I could just see a faint smoke rising
above this house. Hoping to find there some comrades more
compassionate than those I had hitherto addressed, I boldly walked as
far as the farm. On going in, I found the table laid. Several
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