| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert: bags to stone Hanno. With great difficulty he was able to mount an
ass; and he fled, clinging to its hair, howling, weeping, shaken,
bruised, and calling down the curse of all the gods upon the army. His
broad necklace of precious stones rebounded up to his ears. His cloak
which was too long, and which trailed behind him, he kept on with his
teeth, and from afar the Barbarians shouted at him, "Begone coward!
pig! sink of Moloch! sweat your gold and your plague! quicker!
quicker!" The routed escort galloped beside him.
But the fury of the Barbarians did not abate. They remembered that
several of them who had set out for Carthage had not returned; no
doubt they had been killed. So much injustice exasperated them, and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Vision Splendid by William MacLeod Raine: "Sh--h! It's high finance. Don't use that other word," he
whispered. "And what's fair hasn't a thing to do with it. It's my
apple because I've got it."
"But--"
He waved her protest aside blandly. "Now try to be content with
the lot a wise Providence has awarded you. I eat the apple. You
see me eat it.
That's the usual division of profits. Don't be an agitator, or an
anarchist."
"Don't I get even the core?" she begged.
"I'd like to give it to you, but it wouldn't be best. You see I
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: offer them an hecatomb of bullocks and herds of beasts, that we
may have them from henceforth for our allies invincible, making
plain our path of life before us."
Hereto the king made answer, "We have not conquered, aged sir, we
have not conquered: nay, rather have we been defeated in open
fight. They that were for us turned suddenly against us. They
found our host a wild, half-drunken, feeble folk, and utterly
overthrew it. But now, if there be with thee any power and
strength to help our fallen religion and set it up again, declare
it."
Theudas replied in this wise, "Dread not, O king, the oppositions
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