| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Finished by H. Rider Haggard: "Cetewayo the King is one of them, the others I do not know, but
they are many, armed all of them. They approach your gate;
before a man can count two hundred they will be here."
"Where are the white chief and the lady Heddana?" asked Zikali.
"By good fortune they have gone by the secret path to the
tableland and will not be back till sunset. They wished to be
alone, so I did not accompany them, and Macumazahn here said that
he was too weary to do so." (This was true. Also like Nombe I
thought that they wished to be alone.)
"Good. Go, tell the king that I knew of his coming and am
awaiting him. Bid my servants kill the ox which is in the kraal,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott: The soot, which had not been disturbed for centuries, showered
down the huge tunnelled chimneys; lime and dust flew in clouds
from the wall; and, whether the lightning had actually struck the
castle or whether through the violent concussion of the air,
several heavy stones were hurled from the mouldering battlements
into the roaring sea beneath. It might seem as if the ancient
founder of the castle were bestriding the thunderstorm, and
proclaiming his displeasure at the reconciliation of his
descendant with the enemy of his house.
The consternation was general, and it required the efforts of
both the Lord Keeper and Ravenswood to keep Lucy from
The Bride of Lammermoor |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The War in the Air by H. G. Wells: saluted.
The Prince surveyed them with the gesture of a man who site a
steed. The head of the Kapitan appeared beside him.
Then Bert had a terrible moment. The blue blaze of the Prince's
eye fell upon him, the great finger pointed, a question was
asked. Kurt intervened with explanations.
"So," said the Prince, and Bert was disposed of.
Then the Prince addressed the men in short, heroic sentences,
steadying himself on the hinge with one hand and waving the other
in a fine variety of gesture. What he said Bert could not tell,
but he perceived that their demeanor changed, their backs
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