| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: force an explanation of the manner of their going and the
direction they have taken."
Before Kulan Tith could issue the commands that would initiate
the investigation a handsome young officer stepped forward and
addressed his jeddak.
"O Kulan Tith, Mightiest of Jeddaks," he said, "I alone be
responsible for this grievous error. Last night it was I
who commanded the palace guard. I was on duty in other parts of
the palace during the audience of the early morning, and knew
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Catherine de Medici by Honore de Balzac: presence of Madame la Duchesse de Valentinois and the king. I shall
try to be worthy of him."
While the physician exhorted the unfortunate lad not to force them to
have recourse to more violent measures, the cardinal and the duke,
impatient to know the result of the interrogations, entered the hall
and themselves asked Christophe to speak the truth, immediately. The
young man repeated the only confession he had allowed himself to make,
which implicated no one but Chaudieu. The princes made a sign, on
which the executioner and his assistant seized their hammers, taking
each a wedge, which then they drove in between the joints, standing
one to right, the other to left of their victim; the executioner's
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Finished by H. Rider Haggard: the oath, with his family, with his kraal and all with whom he
has to do.
"Now what is it you ask of me? First of all, counsel as to
whether you should fight the English Queen, a matter on which
you, the Great Ones, are evenly divided in opinion, as is the
nation behind you. O King, Indunas, and Captains, who am I that
I should judge of such a matter which is beyond my trade, a
matter of the world above and of men's bodies, not of the world
below and of men's spirits? Yet there was one who made the Zulu
people out of nothing, as a potter fashions a vessel from clay,
as a smith fashions an assegai out of the ore of the hills, yes,
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