| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland by Olive Schreiner: "they say if we had the British Government here and you were thrashing a
nigger and something happened, there'd be an investigation, and all that
sort of thing. But, with Cecil, it's all right, you can do what you like
with the niggers, provided you don't get HIM into trouble."
The stranger watched the clear flame as it burnt up high in the still night
air; then suddenly he started.
"What is it?" said Peter; "do you hear anything?"
"I hear far off," said the stranger, "the sound of weeping, and the sound
of blows. And I hear the voices of men and women calling to me."
Peter listened intently. "I don't hear anything!" he said. "It must be in
your head. I sometimes get a noise in mine." He listened intently. "No,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lucile by Owen Meredith: And Death's daily obolus due, whether claim'd
By man or by nature.
VII.
Time passes. The dumb,
Bitter, snow-bound, and sullen November is come.
And its snows have been bathed in the blood of the brave;
And many a young heart has glutted the grave:
And on Inkerman yet the wild bramble is gory,
And those bleak heights henceforth shall be famous in story.
VIII.
The moon, swathed in storm, has long set: through the camp
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: top of the conical trunk. They commonly carried their head and
its supporting member at the level of the cone top, although it
was frequently raised or lowered.
The other three great members
tended to rest downward at the sides of the cone, contracted to
about five feet each when not in use. From their rate of reading,
writing, and operating their machines - those on the tables seemed
somehow connected with thought - I concluded that their intelligence
was enormously greater than man's.
Aftenvard I saw them everywhere;
swarming in all the great chambers and corridors, tending monstrous
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