| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: beneath the temples of the therns. I could not answer him,
nor can I answer you. I do not know whence comes my power
over them, but ever since the day that Sator Throg threw
me among them in the banth pit of the Holy Therns,
and the great creatures fawned upon instead of devouring me,
I ever have had the same strange power over them.
They come at my call and do my bidding, even as the
faithful Woola does the bidding of your mighty sire."
With a word the girl dispersed the fierce pack. Roaring,
they returned to their interrupted feast, while Carthoris
and Thuvia passed among them toward the walled city.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Disputation of the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences by Dr. Martin Luther: need, and passes him by, and gives [his money] for pardons,
purchases not the indulgences of the pope, but the indignation
of God.
46. Christians are to be taught that unless they have more
than they need, they are bound to keep back what is necessary
for their own families, and by no means to squander it on
pardons.
47. Christians are to be taught that the buying of pardons is
a matter of free will, and not of commandment.
48. Christians are to be taught that the pope, in granting
pardons, needs, and therefore desires, their devout prayer for
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain: he had got it pretty good him and the duke begun to
practice it together. The duke had to learn him over
and over again how to say every speech; and he made
him sigh, and put his hand on his heart, and after a
while he said he done it pretty well; "only," he says,
"you mustn't bellow out ROMEO! that way, like a
bull -- you must say it soft and sick and languishy,
so -- R-o-o-meo! that is the idea; for Juliet's a dear
sweet mere child of a girl, you know, and she doesn't
bray like a jackass."
Well, next they got out a couple of long swords that
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
