| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Hiero by Xenophon: providential care for you. And if danger threatens, you will find in
them not simply fellow-warriors, but champions eager to defend you
with their lives.[11]
[11] Not {summakhoi}, but {promakhoi}.
Worthy of many gifts you shall be deemed, and yet be never at a loss
for some well-wisher with whom to share them. You shall command a
world-wide loyalty; a whole people shall rejoice with you at your good
fortunes, a whole people battle for your interests, as if in very deed
and truth their own. Your treasure-houses shall be coextensive with
the garnered riches of your friends and lovers.
Therefore be of good cheer, Hiero; enrich your friends, and you will
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: by the intrepid Lieut. Ronald Hill, only to be shot down when
directly over his destination. The fall had been spectacular and
awful; Hill was unrecognisable afterward, but the wreck yielded
up the great surgeon in a nearly decapitated but otherwise intact
condition. West had greedily seized the lifeless thing which had
once been his friend and fellow-scholar; and I shuddered when
he finished severing the head, placed it in his hellish vat of
pulpy reptile-tissue to preserve it for future experiments, and
proceeded to treat the decapitated body on the operating table.
He injected new blood, joined certain veins, arteries, and nerves
at the headless neck, and closed the ghastly aperture with engrafted
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Passion in the Desert by Honore de Balzac: vertebrae which divided the panther's yellow back. The animal waved
her tail voluptuously, and her eyes grew gentle; and when for the
third time the Frenchman accomplished this interesting flattery, she
gave forth one of those purrings by which cats express their pleasure;
but this murmur issued from a throat so powerful and so deep that it
resounded through the cave like the last vibrations of an organ in a
church. The man, understanding the importance of his caresses,
redoubled them in such a way as to surprise and stupefy his imperious
courtesan. When he felt sure of having extinguished the ferocity of
his capricious companion, whose hunger had so fortunately been
satisfied the day before, he got up to go out of the cave; the panther
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