| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Beasts of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: "Jack stolen from the garden through complicity of new servant.
Come at once.--JANE."
As Tarzan leaped from the roadster that had met him at the
station and ran up the steps to his London town house he
was met at the door by a dry-eyed but almost frantic woman.
Quickly Jane Porter Clayton narrated all that she had been
able to learn of the theft of the boy.
The baby's nurse had been wheeling him in the sunshine
on the walk before the house when a closed taxicab drew up
at the corner of the street. The woman had paid but passing
attention to the vehicle, merely noting that it discharged no
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War by Frederick A. Talbot: to their low speeds they may be dismissed as impossible aerial
vessels for hazardous work and are not regarded by the German
authorities as all-round airships of war.
Craft of the air are judged in Germany from the one standard
only. This may be a Teutonic failing, but it is quite in keeping
with the Teutonic spirit of militarism. Commercialism is a
secondary factor. To the German Emperor an airship is much what
a new manufacturing process or machine is to the American.
Whereas the latter asks, "How much will it save me on the
dollar?" to the War Lord of Germany--and an airship
notwithstanding its other recommendatory features is judged
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: have--killed your wife. Last September I was two hundred miles
north of here on the upper Nueces. I can prove that. Men who
know me will tell you I couldn't murder a woman. I haven't any
idea why such a deed should be laid at my hands. It's just that
wild border gossip. I have no idea what reasons you have for
holding me responsible. I only know--you're wrong. You've been
deceived. And see here, Aiken. You understand I'm a miserable
man. I'm about broken, I guess. I don't care any more for life,
for anything. If you can't look me in the eyes, man to man, and
believe what I say--why, by God! you can kill me!"
Aiken heaved a great breath.
The Lone Star Ranger |
