| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Market-Place by Harold Frederic: Thorpe was inspired to begin, bluntly pushing preliminaries
aside. "If a man of fortune wishes to do genuine good
with his money, here in England, how should he best go about it?"
The Duke looked up at his questioner, with a sudden flash
of surprise on his dark, mobile face. He hesitated
a moment, and smiled a little. "You ask of me the sum of
human wisdom," he said. "It is the hardest of all problems;
no one solves it."
Thorpe nodded his big head comprehendingly. "That's all
the more reason why it ought to be solved," he declared,
with slow emphasis.
The Market-Place |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: miles from his cabin. He had gone inland about half a mile
when there came suddenly to his trained nostrils the one
scent that sets the whole savage jungle aquiver--Tarzan
smelled man.
The wind was blowing off the ocean, so Tarzan knew that
the authors of the scent were west of him. Mixed with the
man scent was the scent of Numa. Man and lion.
"I had better hasten," thought the ape-man, for he had
recognized the scent of whites. "Numa may be a-hunting."
When he came through the trees to the edge of the jungle
he saw a woman kneeling in prayer, and before her stood a
The Return of Tarzan |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from An Episode Under the Terror by Honore de Balzac: "How if it is a spy? . . . a plot? . . . Don't go. And take the box
away from her----"
The words whispered in the pastry-cook's ear cooled his hot fit of
courage down to zero.
"Oh! I will just go out and say a word or two. I will rid you of him
soon enough," he exclaimed, as he bounced out of the shop.
The old lady meanwhile, passive as a child and almost dazed, sat down
on her chair again. But the honest pastry-cook came back directly. A
countenance red enough to begin with, and further flushed by the bake-
house fire, was suddenly blanched; such terror perturbed him that he
reeled as he walked, and stared about him like a drunken man.
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