| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Child of Storm by H. Rider Haggard: to you that this is my hut, in which I wish to speak alone with my
guest."
"I go, I go!" gasped Mameena; "but I tell you that Saduko shall hear of
this."
"Certainly he will hear of it, for I shall tell him when he comes
to-night."
Another instant and Mameena was gone, having shot out of the hut like a
rabbit from its burrow.
"I ask your pardon, Macumazahn, for what has happened," said Nandie,
"but it had become necessary that I should teach my sister, Mameena,
upon which stool she ought to sit. I do not trust her, Macumazahn. I
Child of Storm |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Hamlet by William Shakespeare: Whether in Sea, or Fire, in Earth, or Ayre,
Th' extrauagant, and erring Spirit, hyes
To his Confine. And of the truth heerein,
This present Obiect made probation
Mar. It faded on the crowing of the Cocke.
Some sayes, that euer 'gainst that Season comes
Wherein our Sauiours Birch is celebrated,
The Bird of Dawning singeth all night long:
And then (they say) no Spirit can walke abroad,
The nights are wholsome, then no Planets strike,
No Faiery talkes, nor Witch hath power to Charme:
Hamlet |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Anabasis by Xenophon: pupil of Socrates. He marched with the Spartans,
and was exiled from Athens. Sparta gave him land
and property in Scillus, where he lived for many
years before having to move once more, to settle
in Corinth. He died in 354 B.C.
The Anabasis is his story of the march to Persia
to aid Cyrus, who enlisted Greek help to try and
take the throne from Artaxerxes, and the ensuing
return of the Greeks, in which Xenophon played a
leading role. This occurred between 401 B.C. and
March 399 B.C.
Anabasis |
