| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas: over the garden-hedge, I crept amongst the olive and wild
fig trees, and fearing that Caderousse might have some
guest, I entered a kind of shed in which I had often passed
the night, and which was only separated from the inn by a
partition, in which holes had been made in order to enable
us to watch an opportunity of announcing our presence. My
intention was, if Caderousse was alone, to acquaint him with
my presence, finish the meal the custom-house officers had
interrupted, and profit by the threatened storm to return to
the Rhone, and ascertain the state of our vessel and its
crew. I stepped into the shed, and it was fortunate I did
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: rend them in pieces now; and in rushes ship after ship, to smash
her broadsides through and through the wooden castles, "sometimes
not a pike's length asunder," and then out again to re-load, and
give place meanwhile to another. The smaller are fighting with all
sails set; the few larger, who, once in, are careless about coming
out again, fight with top-sails loose, and their main and foreyards
close down on deck, to prevent being boarded. The duke, Oquenda,
and Recalde, having with much ado got clear of the shallows, bear
the brunt of the fight to seaward; but in vain. The day goes
against them more and more, as it runs on. Seymour and Winter have
battered the great San Philip into a wreck; her masts are gone by
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Myths and Myth-Makers by John Fiske: [97] See Grimm, Deutsche Mythologie, 939.
[98] The Buddhistic as well as the Zarathustrian reformation
degraded the Vedic gods into demons. "In Buddhism we find
these ancient devas, Indra and the rest, carried about at
shows, as servants of Buddha, as goblins, or fabulous heroes."
Max Muller, Chips, I. 25. This is like the Christian change of
Odin into an ogre, and of Thor into the Devil.
If we trace back this remarkable word to its primitive source
in that once lost but now partially recovered mother-tongue
from which all our Aryan languages are descended, we find a
root div or dyu, meaning "to shine." From the first-mentioned
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