| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Nada the Lily by H. Rider Haggard: Umslopogaas went out and spoke to them, telling them of this
adventure, and Galazi the Wolf was with him. They listened silently,
and it was plain to see that, as in the case of the headmen, some of
them thought one thing and some another. Then Galazi spoke to them
briefly, telling them that he knew the roads and the caves and the
number of the Halakazi cattle; but still they doubted. Thereon
Umslopogaas added these words:--
"To-morrow, at the dawn, I, Bulalio, Holder of the Axe, Chief of the
People of the Axe, go up against the Halakazi, with Galazi the Wolf,
my brother. If but ten men follow us, yet we will go. Now, choose, you
soldiers! Let those come who will, and let those who will stop at home
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London: imagination; nor was veracity one of his virtues.
II
Dawson, always eager for news, beheld Montana Kid's sled heading
down the Yukon, and went out on the ice to meet him. No, he
hadn't any newspapers; didn't know whether Durrant was hanged yet,
nor who had won the Thanksgiving game; hadn't heard whether the
United States and Spain had gone to fighting; didn't know who
Dreyfus was; but O'Brien? Hadn't they heard? O'Brien, why, he
was drowned in the White Horse; Sitka Charley the only one of the
party who escaped. Joe Ladue? Both legs frozen and amputated at
the Five Fingers. And Jack Dalton? Blown up on the "Sea Lion"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Karl Marx: this time, if had acquired the right of citizenship in one-half of her
Departments--the state of siege. A wondrous discovery this was,
periodically applied at each succeeding crisis in the course of the
French revolution. But the barrack and the bivouac, thus periodically
laid on the head of French society, to compress her brain and reduce her
to quiet; the sabre and the musket, periodically made to perform the
functions of judges and of administrators, of guardians and of censors,
of police officers and of watchmen; the military moustache and the
soldier's jacket, periodically heralded as the highest wisdom and
guiding stars of society;--were not all of these, the barrack and the
bivouac, the sabre and the musket, the moustache and the soldier's
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