| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela: woman with a child in her arms walking over the rocks
of the sierra in the moonlight. A house in flames. . . .
"Clear out. Everybody outside!" he orders darkly.
His staff obeys. Monico and the ladies kiss his hands,
weeping with gratitude. The mob in the street, talking
and laughing, stands waiting for the general's permission
to ransack the cacique's house.
"I know where they've buried their money but I won't
tell," says a youngster with a basket in his hands.
"Hm! I know the right place, mind you," says an old
woman carrying a burlap sack to hold whatever the good
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: Said he, 'We will see whether thou hast told the truth, or whether
thou art of those who lie. Go with this my letter and throw it
before them, then turn back away from them, and see what they return.'
Said she, 'O ye chiefs! verily, a noble letter has been thrown
before me. It is from Solomon, and, verily, it is, "In the name of the
merciful and compassionate God. Do not rise up against me, but come to
me resigned!"' She said, ye chiefs! pronounce sentence for me in my
affair. I never decide an affair until ye testify for me.'
They said, 'We are endowed with strength, and endowed with keen
violence; but the bidding is thine, see then what it is that thou wilt
bid.'
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Miracle Mongers and Their Methods by Harry Houdini: Chylinski, 1841.--Chamouni, the Russian Salamander,
1869.--Professor Rel Maeub, 1876. Rivelli (died 1900)
IV.--The Master--Chabert, 1792-1859
V. Fire-eating magicians. Ching Ling Foo and Chung
Ling Soo.--Fire-eaters employed by magicians:
The Man-Salamander, 1816.-Mr. Carlton,
Professor of Chemistry, 1818.--Miss Cassillis, aged
nine, 1820. The African Wonder, 1843.--Ling
Look and Yamadeva die in China during Kellar's
world tour, 1877.--Ling Look's double, 1879.--
Electrical effects, The Salambos.--Bueno Core.--Del
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