| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Jungle Tales of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: and though the small talk of the wild was beyond
the great, gray dreadnaught of the jungle, he stood
with blinking eyes and gently swaying trunk as though
drinking in every word of it with keenest appreciation.
As a matter of fact it was the pleasant, friendly voice
and caressing hands behind his ears which he enjoyed,
and the close proximity of him whom he had often borne
upon his back since Tarzan, as a little child, had once
fearlessly approached the great bull, assuming upon the
part of the pachyderm the same friendliness which filled
his own heart.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from What is Man? by Mark Twain: street, a measured yard apart. Even after I got so I could steer
pretty fairly I was so afraid of those stones that I always hit
them. They gave me the worst falls I ever got in that street,
except those which I got from dogs. I have seen it stated that
no expert is quick enough to run over a dog; that a dog is always
able to skip out of his way. I think that that may be true: but
I think that the reason he couldn't run over the dog was because
he was trying to. I did not try to run over any dog. But I ran
over every dog that came along. I think it makes a great deal of
difference. If you try to run over the dog he knows how to
calculate, but if you are trying to miss him he does not know how
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: detective. Finally he struck up an acquaintance with a
kindly-faced old priest on his way home to his convent school,
armed with a roll of dance music and surreptitious bundles that
looked like boxes of candy. From scraps of conversation I gleaned
that there had been mysterious occurrences at the convent, - ending
in the theft of what the reverend father called vaguely, "a quantity
of undermuslins." I dropped asleep at that point, and when I roused
a few moments later, the conversation had progressed. Hotchkiss had
a diagram on an envelope.
"With this window bolted, and that one inaccessible, and if, as you
say, the - er - garments were in a tub here at X, then, as you hold
The Man in Lower Ten |
