| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: I do not say it is true, I say it goes uncontradicted; and there is
one peculiarity of our officials in a nutshell, - their remarkable
indifference to their own character. From the one house to the
other extends a scattering village for the Faipule or native
parliament men. In the days of Tamasese this was a brave place,
both his own house and those of the Faipule good, and the whole
excellently ordered and approached by a sanded way. It is now like
a neglected bush-town, and speaks of apathy in all concerned. But
the chief scandal of Mulinuu is elsewhere. The house of the
president stands just to seaward of the isthmus, where the watch is
set nightly, and armed men guard the uneasy slumbers of the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Poems by Bronte Sisters: She puts them quick aside,
Nor knows that band of crystals bright,
Her hasty touch untied.
It slips adown her silken dress,
Falls glittering at her feet;
Unmarked it falls, for she no less
Pursues her labour sweet.
The very loveliest hour that shines,
Is in that deep blue sky;
The golden sun of June declines,
It has not caught her eye.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: for every one of theirs. Fall on them at once, do not hesitate
till their prowess finds them friends, but crush them.'
'Such is the counsel of one whose mother was a Teule;' the emperor
answered, with sarcasm and bitter meaning. 'Tell me now,
counsellor, how am I to know that in fighting against them I shall
not be fighting against the gods; how even am I to learn the true
wishes and purposes of men or gods who cannot speak my tongue and
whose tongue I cannot speak?'
'It is easy, O Montezuma,' I answered. 'I can speak their tongue;
send me to discover for you.'
Now as I spoke thus my heart bounded with hope, for if once I could
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