| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Travels with a Donkey in the Cevenne by Robert Louis Stevenson: memorable BEAST, the Napoleon Bonaparte of wolves. What a career
was his! He lived ten months at free quarters in Gevaudan and
Vivarais; he ate women and children and 'shepherdesses celebrated
for their beauty'; he pursued armed horsemen; he has been seen at
broad noonday chasing a post-chaise and outrider along the king's
high-road, and chaise and outrider fleeing before him at the
gallop. He was placarded like a political offender, and ten
thousand francs were offered for his head. And yet, when he was
shot and sent to Versailles, behold! a common wolf, and even small
for that. 'Though I could reach from pole to pole,' sang Alexander
Pope; the Little Corporal shook Europe; and if all wolves had been
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Finished by H. Rider Haggard: from the blade."
"Aye," said Zikali, "and the blade has drawn the blood of the
Black One's child. Read me this omen, Sigananda; or ask it of
her who stands above you."
Now all looked to the rock, but it was empty. The figure had
vanished.
"Your word, King," said Zikali. "Is it for peace or war?"
Cetewayo looked at the assegai, looked at the blood trickling
from his knee, looked at the faces of the councillors.
"Blood calls for blood," he moaned. "My word is--_War!_"
CHAPTER XVII
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers by Jonathan Swift: restrain you from taking the oyster, and leaving only the shell
to your client.
O ye physicians, (who in the figure of old women are to clean the
tripe in the markets) scour it as effectually as you have done
that of your patients, and the town will fare most deliciously on
Saturdays.
I cannot but congratulate human nature, upon this happy
transformation; the only expedient left to restore the liberties
and tranquillity of mankind. This is so evident, that it is
almost an affront to common sense to insist upon the proof: If
there can be any such stupid creature as to doubt it, I desire he
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