| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland by Olive Schreiner: bit of land and are trying honestly and fairly to work, are getting pretty
sick of this humbugging fighting. If we'd had a few men like the Curries
and Bowkers of the old days up here from the first, all this would never
have happened. And there's no knowing when a reason won't turn up for
keeping the bloody thing on or stopping it off for a time, to break out
just when one's settled down to work. It's a damned convenient thing to
have a war like this to turn on and off."
Slowly the third man keeled round on to his stomach again: "Let
resignation wait. We fight the Matabele again tomorrow," he said,
sententiously.
A low titter ran round the group. Even the man under the bushes, though
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from At the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs: their literary works but a single tense, the present.
There seems to be neither past nor future with them.
Of course it is impossible for our outer-earthly minds
to grasp such a condition, but our recent experiences seem
to demonstrate its existence."
It was too big a subject for me, and I said so, but Perry
seemed to enjoy nothing better than speculating upon it,
and after listening with interest to my account of the
adventures through which I had passed he returned once more
to the subject, which he was enlarging upon with considerable
fluency when he was interrupted by the entrance of a Sagoth.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso: To aid those ships which Turks and Persians have,
Say then, what hope is left thy slender fleet?
Dare flocks of crows, a flight of eagles meet?
LXXVII
"My lord, a double conquest must you make,
If you achieve renown by this emprize:
For if our fleet your navy chase or take,
For want of victuals all your camp then dies;
Of if by land the field you once forsake,
Then vain by sea were hope of victories.
Nor could your ships restore your lost estate:
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