| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Nada the Lily by H. Rider Haggard: Axe. Ah! would that I had known for certain that this was none other
than Umslopogaas, for then had Dingaan gone the way that Chaka went
and which Umhlangana followed, and Umslopogaas ruled the people of the
Zulus as their king. But, alas! my wisdom failed me. I paid no heed to
the voice of my heart which told me that this was Umslopogaas who sent
the message to Chaka threatening vengeance for one Mopo, and I knew
nothing till too late; surely, I thought, the man spoke of some other
Mopo. For thus, my father, does destiny make fools of us men. We think
that we can shape our fate, but it is fate that shapes us, and nothing
befalls except fate will it. All things are a great pattern, my
father, drawn by the hand of the Umkulunkulu upon the cup whence he
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Critias by Plato: ditch were incredible, and gave the impression that a work of such extent,
in addition to so many others, could never have been artificial.
Nevertheless I must say what I was told. It was excavated to the depth of
a hundred feet, and its breadth was a stadium everywhere; it was carried
round the whole of the plain, and was ten thousand stadia in length. It
received the streams which came down from the mountains, and winding round
the plain and meeting at the city, was there let off into the sea. Further
inland, likewise, straight canals of a hundred feet in width were cut from
it through the plain, and again let off into the ditch leading to the sea:
these canals were at intervals of a hundred stadia, and by them they
brought down the wood from the mountains to the city, and conveyed the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Art of Writing by Robert Louis Stevenson: tongue. In a kind of despair, I turned half-way through the
volume; and coming upon his lordship dealing with General
Cannon, and fresh from Claverhouse and Killiecrankie, here,
with elucidative spelling, was my reward:
'Meanwhile the disorders of Kannon's Kamp went on inKreasing.
He Kalled a Kouncil of war to Konsider what Kourse it would
be advisable to taKe. But as soon as the Kouncil had met, a
preliminary Kuestion was raised. The army was almost
eKsKlusively a Highland army. The recent vKktory had been
won eKsKlusively by Highland warriors. Great chieFs who had
brought siKs or SeVen hundred Fighting men into the Field did
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