| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from When the World Shook by H. Rider Haggard: life and those of his people would be spared. This, however,
after the evil behaviour of some of them of course we could not
guarantee.
Marama departed so thoroughly frightened that he even forgot to
make any inquiries as to who this god of the Mountain might be,
or where he came from, or whither he was going. Of course, the
place had been sacred among his people from the beginning,
whenever that may have been, but that its sacredness should
materialise into an active god who brought sorcerers of the
highest reputation to a most unpleasant end, just because they
wished to translate their preaching into practice, was another
When the World Shook |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner: though the ground is not yet on him; that who wrongs another clouds his own
sun; and that who sins in secret stands accursed and condemned before the
one Judge who deals eternal justice--his own all-knowing self.
"Experience will teach us this, and reason will show us why it must be so;
but at first the world swings before our eyes, and no voice cries out,
'This is the way, walk ye in it!' You are happy to be here, boy! When the
suspense fills you with pain you build stone walls and dig earth for
relief. Others have stood where you stand today, and have felt as you
feel; and another relief has been offered them, and they have taken it.
"When the day has come when they have seen the path in which they might
walk, they have not the strength to follow it. Habits have fastened on
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Anthem by Ayn Rand: "Take our brother Equality 7-2521 to
the Palace of Corrective Detention.
Lash them until they tell."
So we were taken to the Stone Room
under the Palace of Corrective Detention.
This room has no windows and it is empty
save for an iron post. Two men stood by
the post, naked but for leather aprons and
leather hoods over their faces. Those who
had brought us departed, leaving us to the
two Judges who stood in a corner of the
Anthem |
