| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Child of Storm by H. Rider Haggard: Osborn, perhaps knew more of that land and people than anyone else of
his period.
As a result of this hint given by a maddened king, the great battle of
the Tugela was fought at Endondakusuka in December, 1856, between the
Usutu party, commanded by Cetewayo, and the adherents of Umbelazi the
Handsome, his brother, who was known among the Zulus as
"Indhlovu-ene-Sihlonti", or the "Elephant with the tuft of hair," from a
little lock of hair which grew low down upon his back.
My friend, Sir Melmoth Osborn, who died in or about the year 1897, was
present at this battle, although not as a combatant. Well do I remember
his thrilling story, told to me over thirty years ago, of the events of
Child of Storm |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain: some men's clothing, too. We put the lot into the
canoe -- it might come good. There was a boy's old
speckled straw hat on the floor; I took that, too.
And there was a bottle that had had milk in it, and it
had a rag stopper for a baby to suck. We would a
took the bottle, but it was broke. There was a seedy
old chest, and an old hair trunk with the hinges broke.
They stood open, but there warn't nothing left in them
that was any account. The way things was scattered
about we reckoned the people left in a hurry, and
warn't fixed so as to carry off most of their stuff.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Royalty Restored/London Under Charles II by J. Fitzgerald Molloy: And presently, far down the line of streets, a sound was heard of
innumerable voices cheering most lustily, which every minute
became nearer and louder, till at last a blare of trumpets was
distinguished, followed by martial music, and the tramp and
confusion of a rushing crowd which suddenly parted on all sides.
Then there burst on view the first sight of that brave and
glorious cavalcade to the number of twenty thousand, which
ushered the king back unto his own. First came a troop of young
and comely gentlemen, three hundred in all, representing the
pride and valour of the kingdom, wearing cloth of silver doublets
and brandishing naked swords which flashed in the sunlight. Then
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