| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Child of Storm by H. Rider Haggard: named Tshonkweni, Dabulesinye, and Mantantashiya. As it chanced, by a
strange coincidence all of these were killed at the great battle of the
Tugela of which I have to tell.
Now again an exclamation of fear and wonder rose from the audience, who
set down this lifting of the dust at Zikali's very feet not to natural
causes, but to the power of his magic. Moreover, those on whom it had
fallen, including the King, rose hurriedly and shook and brushed it from
their persons with a zeal that was not, I think, inspired by a mere
desire for cleanliness. But Zikali only laughed again in his terrible
fashion and let it lie on his fresh-oiled body, which it turned to the
dull, dead hue of a grey adder.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: him, was not the manner of an honest man.'
'Oh!' she cried, throwing up her hands as in desperation,
'Don Quixote, Don Quixote, have you again been tilting
against windmills?' And then, with a laugh, 'Poor soul!' she
added, 'how you must have terrified him! For know that the
Cuban authorities are here, and your poor Teresa may soon be
hunted down. Even yon humble clerk from my solicitor's
office may find himself at any moment the quarry of armed
spies.'
'A humble clerk!' cried Harry, 'why, you told me yourself
that he wished to marry you!'
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Peter Pan by James M. Barrie: slain Barbecue with, and the lust of battle was in his eye.
Chapter 12
THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF
The pirate attack had been a complete surprise: a sure proof
that the unscrupulous Hook had conducted it improperly, for to
surprise redskins fairly is beyond the wit of the white man.
By all the unwritten laws of savage warfare it is always the
redskin who attacks, and with the wiliness of his race he does it
just before the dawn, at which time he knows the courage of the
whites to be at its lowest ebb. The white men have in the
meantime made a rude stockade on the summit of yonder undulating
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