| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: without a word, though her lips turned pale.
'Truly,' she said when I had done, 'these Teules far surpass the
pabas of our people, for if the priests torture and sacrifice, it
is to the gods and not for gold and secret hate. Now, husband,
what is your counsel? Surely you have some counsel.'
'I have none that I dare offer, wife,' I groaned.
'You are timid as a girl who will not utter the love she burns to
tell,' Otomie answered with a proud and bitter laugh. 'Well, I
will speak it for you. It is in your mind that we must die to-
night.'
'It is,' I said; 'death now, or shame and agony to-morrow and then
Montezuma's Daughter |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: eyes directed in careful watchfulness along the way
that he had come.
Almost instantly Jane Clayton recognized the man as M.
Jules Frecoult, who so recently had been a guest in her
home. She was upon the point of calling to him in glad
relief when she saw him leap quickly to one side and
hide himself in the thick verdure at the trail's side.
It was evident that he was being followed by an enemy,
and so Jane Clayton kept silent, lest she distract
Frecoult's attention, or guide his foe to his hiding
place.
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Hiero by Xenophon: borne by the particular {polis} as member of a league, whether of
states united for the time being in a {summakhia}, or permanently
in a confederacy = a "federal" war.
[6] "Even if serving on a campaign in the enemy's country."
[7] Or, "he has to exercise the utmost vigilance."
[8] "With those who are 'absolutely governed,' not to say tyrannically
ruled."
[9] Or, "which the tyrant may accept in faith and go his way
rejoicing."
Wars doubtless there are,[10] wars waged by states and wars waged by
autocratic monarchs against those whom they have forcibly enslaved,
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