| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Voyage to Abyssinia by Father Lobo: into one of the springs of the Nile; after which ceremony, every one
sacrifices a cow or more, according to their different degrees of
wealth or devotion. The bones of these cows have already formed two
mountains of considerable height, which afford a sufficient proof
that these nations have always paid their adorations to this famous
river. They eat these sacrifices with great devotion, as flesh
consecrated to their deity. Then the priest anoints himself with
the grease and tallow of the cows, and sits down on a heap of straw,
on the top and in the middle of a pile which is prepared; they set
fire to it, and the whole heap is consumed without any injury to the
priest, who while the fire continues harangues the standers by, and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: the same opinion on a single point of law. To return to the man I
was telling you of. He would crucify Jesus Christ again, if I
bade him. At a word from his old chum Vautrin he will pick a
quarrel with a scamp that will not send so much as five francs to
his sister, poor girl, and" (here Vautrin rose to his feet and
stood like a fencing-master about to lunge)--"turn him off into
the dark!" he added.
"How frightful!" said Eugene. "You do not really mean it? M.
Vautrin, you are joking!"
"There! there! Keep cool!" said the other. "Don't behave like a
baby. But if you find any amusement in it, be indignant, flare
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Vision Splendid by William MacLeod Raine: broadcast. He foresaw a reaction against his bill and its probable
defeat.
The issue was on the knees of chance. The fact that could not be
obliterated was that he had been wiped from the slate until after
the legislature would adjourn. For every hour was carrying him
farther from the scene of action.
His only hope was that the _Nancy Hanks_ might put in at the
Hawaiian Islands, from which place he might get a chance to write,
or, better still, to cable the reason of his absence. Captain
Green himself wiped out this expectation. He jocosely intimated to
Farnum one afternoon that he had no intention of calling the
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