| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Finished by H. Rider Haggard: there is a Zulu left living in the world, I, the Voice of the
Spirits, shall be safe from hurt or from reproach, I and those of
my House and those over whom I throw my blanket, be they black or
be they white. That is my fee, without which I am silent."
"Izwa! We hear you. We swear it on behalf of the people," said
every councillor in the semi-circle in front of him; yes, and the
king said it also, stretching out his hand.
"Good," said Zikali, "it is an oath, it is an oath, sworn here
upon the bones of the dead. Evil-doers you call them, but I say
to you that many of those who sit before me have more evil in
their hearts than had those dead. Well, let it be proclaimed, O
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Octopus by Frank Norris: illusive as that." He paused again, dreaming, lost in a reverie,
then, just above a whisper, murmured:
"'That which thou sowest is not quickened except it die,' . . .
and she, Angele . . . died."
"You could not have been mistaken?" said Presley. "You were sure
that there was something? Imagination can do so much and the
influence of the surroundings was strong. How impossible it
would be that anything SHOULD happen. And you say you heard
nothing, saw nothing."
"I believe," answered Vanamee, "in a sixth sense, or, rather, a
whole system of other unnamed senses beyond the reach of our
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Glasses by Henry James: Where she was amiss nothing counted, and where she was right
everything did. I say she was wanting in mystery, but that after
all was her secret. This happened to be my first chance of
introducing her to my mother, who had not much left in life but the
quiet look from under the hood of her chair at the things which,
when she should have quitted those she loved, she could still trust
to make the world good for them. I wondered an instant how much
she might be moved to trust Flora Saunt, and then while the chair
stood still and she waited I went over and asked the girl to come
and speak to her. In this way I saw that if one of Flora's
attendants was the inevitable young Hammond Synge, master of
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