| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Land of Footprints by Stewart Edward White: too lavish in its depiction of distances. If you do not believe
it, take a picture of a horse at as short a range as twenty-five
yards. That equine will, in the development, have receded to a
respectable middle distance. Therefore it had been agreed that
the advance of the battle line was to cease only when those
rhinoceroses loomed up reasonably large in the finder. I kept
looking into the finder, you may be sure. Nearer and nearer we
crept. The great beasts were evidently basking in the sun. Their
little pig eyes alone gave any sign of life. Otherwise they
exhibited the complete immobility of something done in granite.
Probably no other beast impresses one with quite this quality. I
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Odyssey by Homer: So spake he, and dead silence fell on all, and they were
spell-bound throughout the shadowy halls. Then Arete of the
white arms first spake among them: 'Phaeacians, what think
you of this man for comeliness and stature, and within for
wisdom of heart? Moreover he is my guest, though every one
of you hath his share in this honour. Wherefore haste not
to send him hence, and stint not these your gifts for one
that stands in such sore need of them; for ye have much
treasure stored in your halls by the grace of the gods.'
Then too spake among them the old man, lord Echeneus, that
was an elder among the Phaeacians: 'Friends, behold, the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: mortgages and debentures.
Behind his first-line things he found it necessary at last, and
sanctioned by all the precincts, to set up three general trading
companies, the London and African Investment Company, the British
Traders' Loan Company, and Business Organisations Limited. This
was in the culminating time when I had least to do with affairs.
I don't say that with any desire to exculpate myself; I admit I
was a director of all three, and I will confess I was willfully
incurious in that capacity. Each of these companies ended its
financial year solvent by selling great holdings of shares to one
or other of its sisters, and paying a dividend out of the
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