| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: of never having been touched by the foot of civilized men?"
"Why not?" asked Tarzan. "I did not bring you here. Would
one of your men accord any better treatment to an enemy
woman?"
"Yes," she exclaimed. "They certainly would. No man of my
race would leave a defenseless white woman alone in this hor-
rible place."
Tarzan shrugged his broad shoulders. The conversation
seemed profitless and it was further distasteful to him for the
reason that it was carried on in German, a tongue which he
detested as much as he did the people who spoke it. He wished
Tarzan the Untamed |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Emma by Jane Austen: to her assistance at this critical moment. The pleasantness
of the morning had induced him to walk forward, and leave his
horses to meet him by another road, a mile or two beyond Highbury--
and happening to have borrowed a pair of scissors the night before
of Miss Bates, and to have forgotten to restore them, he had
been obliged to stop at her door, and go in for a few minutes:
he was therefore later than he had intended; and being on foot,
was unseen by the whole party till almost close to them.
The terror which the woman and boy had been creating in Harriet
was then their own portion. He had left them completely frightened;
and Harriet eagerly clinging to him, and hardly able to speak,
Emma |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling: square, and they fired over our backs, the men did, on all sides
of the square."
"What sort of men? Any men that came along?" said the
troop-horse. "They teach us in riding school to lie down and let
our masters fire across us, but Dick Cunliffe is the only man I'd
trust to do that. It tickles my girths, and, besides, I can't see
with my head on the ground."
"What does it matter who fires across you?" said the camel.
"There are plenty of men and plenty of other camels close by, and
a great many clouds of smoke. I am not frightened then. I sit
still and wait."
The Jungle Book |
