| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Marie by H. Rider Haggard: he began to rave at Leblanc, who had brought all this dreadful disaster
upon his house, saying that it was a judgement on himself for having
sheltered an atheist and a drunkard for so many years, just because he
was French and a man of intellect. Someone, my father as a matter of
fact, who with all his prejudices possessed a great sense of justice,
reminded him that the poor Frenchman had expiated, or perchance was now
expiating any crimes that he might have committed.
This turned the stream of his invective on to the Quabie Kaffirs, who
had burned part of his house and stolen nearly all his stock, making him
from a rich man into a poor one in a single hour. He shouted for
vengeance on the "black devils," and called on all there to help him to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Under the Andes by Rex Stout: simultaneously the two Indians lunged with their spears, which flew
to their mark with deadly accuracy. I had not before noticed the
thongs, one end of which was fastened to the shaft of the spear and
the other about the waist of the savage.
There followed a battle royal. Whatever the thing was that
had felt the spears, it certainly lost no time in showing its
resentment. It thrashed the water into furious waves until I
momentarily expected the raft to be swamped.
One Inca stood on the farther edge of the craft desperately
plying an oar; the other tugged lustily at the spear-thongs. I
could see a black, twisting form leap from the water directly
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Voyage to Abyssinia by Father Lobo: towards them, in such a manner that they might hear the bullets hiss
about two feet over their heads. This had the effect we wished; the
noise and fire of our arms struck them with so much terror that they
fell upon the ground, and durst not for some time so much as lift up
their heads. They forgot immediately their natural temper, their
ferocity and haughtiness were softened into mildness and submission;
they asked pardon for their insolence, and we were ever after good
friends.
After our reconciliation we visited each other frequently, and had
some conversation about the journey I had undertaken, and the desire
I had of finding a new passage into Aethiopia. It was necessary on
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