| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from When the World Shook by H. Rider Haggard: "What are you going to do?" I asked.
"Open these coffins," he answered, "beginning with that of the
old god, since I would rather experiment on him. I expect he will
crumble into dust. But if by chance he doesn't I'll jam a little
strychnine, mixed with some other drugs, of which you don't know
the names, into one of his veins and see if anything happens. If
it doesn't, it won't hurt him, and if it does--well, who knows?
Now give me a hand."
We went to the left-hand coffin and by inserting the hook on
the back of my knife, of which the real use is to pick stones out
of horses' hoofs, into one of the little air-holes I have
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: distance one from another, but meet on the Lord's Day at one
Church, and communicate of the Holy Mysteries, I mean the
unbloody Sacrifice of the undefiled Body and precious Blood of
Christ, which the Lord gave to the Faithful for the remission of
sins, for the enlightenment and sanctification of soul and body.
They entertain one another with the exercises of the divine
Oracles and moral exhortations, and make public the secret wiles
of their adversaries, that none, through ignorance of the manner
of wrestling, may be caught thus. Then turn they again, each to
his own home, eagerly storing the honey of virtue in the cells of
their hearts, and husbanding sweet fruits worthy of the heavenly
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum: charm. Then Dorothy told of their adventures
in the Quadling Country and how at last they
succeeded in getting the water from a dark well.
While the little girl was relating these
adventures the Tin Woodman sat in an easy chair
listening with intense interest, while the others
sat grouped around him. Ojo, however, had kept his
eyes fixed upon the body of the tin Emperor, and
now he noticed that under the joint of his left
knee a tiny drop of oil was forming. He watched
this drop of oil with a fast-beating heart, and
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