| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Pocket Diary Found in the Snow by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: Besides, I know that Fellner is a highly respected man.
"There is many a man who is highly respected until he is found out,"
remarked the detective.
"And you are going to find out about Fellner?" smiled the
commissioner. "And this evening, too?"
"This very evening. If he is asleep I shall wake him up. That is
the best time to get at the truth about a man.
The commissioner sat down at his desk and wrote out the necessary
credentials for the detective. A few moments later Muller was in
the street. He left the notebook with the commissioner. It was
snowing heavily, and an icy north wind was howling through the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Monster Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs: very fond of the shrewd and kindly Chinaman of whom
she had seen so much during the dreary months
of her imprisonment within the campong.
"Oh, Sing," she cried, "where have you been? We were
all so worried to think that no sooner was one of us
rescued than another became lost."
"Sing takee walk, Linee, las all," said the grinning Chinaman.
"Velly glad see Linee black 'gain," and that was all that Sing Lee
had to say of the adventures through which he had just passed,
and the strange sights that he had seen.
Again and again the girl and von Horn narrated the
The Monster Men |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne: "What is it?"
"You have, four or five miles from here, a corral for your domesticated
animals. These animals need to be taken care of. Will you allow me to live
there with them?"
Cyrus Harding gazed at the unfortunate man for a few moments with a
feeling of deep commiseration; then,--
"My friend," said he, "the corral has only stables hardly fit for
animals."
"It will be good enough for me, sir."
"My friend," answered Harding, "we will not constrain you in anything.
You wish to live at the corral, so be it. You will, however, be always
The Mysterious Island |
