| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: is the power that you and I wield in this great world.
These people look upon us as little less than supermen.
We must show them that we are all of that.
"We must give them the best that we have, Perry."
"Yes," he agreed; "we must. I have been thinking a
great deal lately that some kind of shrapnel shell or ex-
plosive bomb would be a most splendid innovation in
their warfare. Then there are breech-loading rifles and
those with magazines that I must hasten to study out
and learn to reproduce as soon as we get settled down
again; and--"
Pellucidar |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy: "I hardly know."
"Who is it?"
"Mrs. Yeobright. O, what she said to me that day! I
cannot understand this visit--what does she mean? And
she suspects that past time of ours."
"I am in your hands. If you think she had better not see
me here I'll go into the next room."
"Well, yes--go."
Wildeve at once withdrew; but before he had been half
a minute in the adjoining apartment Eustacia came after him.
"No," she said, "we won't have any of this. If she comes
Return of the Native |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Second Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling: The great panther leaped as a kitten leaps at a dead leaf
whirling overhead, struck left and right into the empty air,
that sang under the strokes, landed noiselessly, and leaped
again and again, while the half purr, half growl gathered head
as steam rumbles in a boiler. "I am Bagheera--in the jungle--
in the night, and my strength is in me. Who shall stay my
stroke? Man-cub, with one blow of my paw I could beat thy head
flat as a dead frog in the summer!"
"Strike, then!" said Mowgli, in the dialect of the village, NOT
the talk of the Jungle, and the human words brought Bagheera to
a full stop, flung back on haunches that quivered under him, his
The Second Jungle Book |
