| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Marie by H. Rider Haggard: suppose--for it seems I would touch it from no other hand. Also I had
visions of the tall shape of my white-haired father, who, like most
missionaries, understood something of surgery and medicine, attending to
the bandages on my thigh. Afterwards he told me that the spear had
actually cut the walls of the big artery, but, by good fortune, without
going through them. Another fortieth of an inch and I should have bled
to death in ten minutes!
On this third day my mind was brought back from its wanderings by the
sound of a great noise about the house, above which I heard the voice of
Marais storming and shouting, and that of my father trying to calm him.
Presently Marie entered the room, drawing-to behind her a Kaffir karoos,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: cotidianis interpretibus remotis, per C. Valerium Troucillum, principem
Galliae provinciae, familiarem suum, cui summam omnium rerum fidem
habebat, cum eo conloquitur; simul commonefacit quae ipso praesente in
concilio [Gallorum] de Dumnorige sint dicta, et ostendit quae separatim
quisque de eo apud se dixerit. Petit atque hortatur ut sine eius
offensione animi vel ipse de eo causa cognita statuat vel civitatem
statuere iubeat.
Diviciacus multis cum lacrimis Caesarem complexus obsecrare coepit ne
quid gravius in fratrem statueret: scire se illa esse vera, nec quemquam
ex eo plus quam se doloris capere, propterea quod, cum ipse gratia
plurimum domi atque in reliqua Gallia, ille minimum propter adulescentiam
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy: man's nature--neither ghastly, hateful, nor ugly;
neither commonplace, unmeaning, nor tame; but, like man,
slighted and enduring; and withal singularly colossal
and mysterious in its swarthy monotony. As with some
persons who have long lived apart, solitude seemed
to look out of its countenance. It had a lonely face,
suggesting tragical possibilities.
This obscure, obsolete, superseded country figures in Domesday.
Its condition is recorded therein as that of heathy, furzy,
briary wilderness--"Bruaria." Then follows the length
and breadth in leagues; and, though some uncertainty exists
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