| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Land that Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs: of the Sphinx. Who knows? I do not.
Thinking the thoughts of a lunatic or a dope-fiend, I fell asleep;
and when I awoke, my hands and feet were securely tied and my
weapons had been taken from me. How they did it without awakening
me I cannot tell you. It was humiliating, but it was true.
To-jo stood above me. The early light of morning was dimly
filtering into the cave.
"Tell me," he demanded, "how to throw a man over my head and
break his neck, for I am going to kill you, and I wish to know
this thing before you die."
Of all the ingenuous declarations I have ever heard, this one
The Land that Time Forgot |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Red Seal by Natalie Sumner Lincoln: "Grimes means the library." McIntyre's tone was short. "I have no
idea, Grimes, what your allegations mean. Be more explicit."
The butler eyed him in no friendly fashion. "Wasn't Mr. Turnbull
arrested in that very room?" he demanded. "And what was he looking
for?"
"Mr. Turnbull's presence has been explained," replied McIntyre.
"He came here disguised as a burglar on a wager with my daughter,
Miss Barbara."
"Ah, did he now?" Grimes' rising inflection indicated nervous
tension. "Did a man with a bad heart come here in the dead of night
for nothing but that foolishness?" Grimes glared at his three
The Red Seal |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Cousin Betty by Honore de Balzac: fortune.--You know the principles of the four hundred elect
representatives of France. Those gentlemen are envious of every
distinction; they have pared down even the Ministers' pay--that says
everything! Ask them for money for an old servant!--What can you
expect of men who pay a whole class so badly as they pay the
Government legal officials?--who give thirty sous a day to the
laborers on the works at Toulon, when it is a physical impossibility
to live there and keep a family on less than forty sous?--who never
think of the atrocity of giving salaries of six hundred francs, up to
a thousand or twelve hundred perhaps, to clerks living in Paris; and
who want to secure our places for themselves as soon as the pay rises
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