| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: But to prevent the tyrant's violence,--
For trust not him that hath once broken faith,--
I'll hence forthwith unto the sanctuary,
To save at least the heir of Edward's right.
There shall I rest secure from force and fraud.
Come therefore, let us fly while we may fly;
If Warwick take us, we are sure to die.
[Exeunt.]
SCENE V. A park near Middleham Castle in Yorkshire
[Enter GLOSTER, HASTINGS, SIR WILLIAM STANLEY, and others.]
GLOSTER.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: of an airship and having gained the forward cockpit, watched
the girl clamber out of his reach without at first endeavoring
to prevent her. Having taken possession of the plane his anger
seemed suddenly to leave him and he made no immediate
move toward following Smith-Oldwick. The girl, realizing the
comparative safety of her position, had crawled to the outer
edge of the wing and was calling to the man to try and reach
the opposite end of the upper plane.
It was this scene upon which Tarzan of the Apes looked as
he rounded the bend of the gorge above the plane after the
pistol shot had attracted his attention. The girl was so intent
Tarzan the Untamed |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pierrette by Honore de Balzac: forever tying up bundles, receiving and making change, snarling at the
clerks, and repeating the same old speeches to customers.
The small amount of brains possessed by the brother and sister had
been wholly absorbed in maintaining their business, in getting and
keeping money, and in learning the special laws and usages of the
Parisian market. Thread, needles, ribbons, pins, buttons, tailors'
furnishings, in short, the enormous quantity of things which go to
make up a mercer's stock, had taken all their capacity. Outside of
their business they knew absolutely nothing; they were even ignorant
of Paris. To them the great city was merely a region spreading around
the Rue Saint-Denis. Their narrow natures could see no field except
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