| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Beasts of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: in the noose.
And then upon the jungle air there rose in unison from two savage
throats the victory cry of the bull-ape and the panther,
blended into one frightful and uncanny scream.
As the last notes died away in a long-drawn, fearsome wail,
a score of painted warriors, drawing their long war-canoe
upon the beach, halted to stare in the direction of the
jungle and to listen.
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By the time that Tarzan had travelled entirely about the coast
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: too weighty with me; but she is as innocent as ever she was when
on her mother's lap, and she, at least, shall have her portion in
that happy City, whose walls are of pure gold, and the
foundations garnished with all manner of precious stones."
"Ay, Tony," said Varney, "that were a paradise to thy heart's
content.--Debate the matter with him, Doctor Alasco; I will be
with you anon."
So speaking, Varney arose, and taking the flask from the table,
he left the room.
"I tell thee, my son," said Alasco to Foster, as soon as Varney
had left them, "that whatever this bold and profligate railer may
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Elixir of Life by Honore de Balzac: skies; but he liked better to sit on earth, to wither the soft,
fresh, fragrant lips of a woman with kisses, for like Death, he
devoured everything without scruple as he passed; he would have
full fruition; he was an Oriental lover, seeking prolonged
pleasures easily obtained. He sought nothing but a woman in
women, and cultivated cynicism, until it became with him a habit
of mind. When his mistress, from the couch on which she lay,
soared and was lost in regions of ecstatic bliss, Don Juan
followed suit, earnest, expansive, serious as any German student.
But he said I, while she, in the transports of intoxication, said
We. He understood to admiration the art of abandoning himself to
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