| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: cut, thrust, and back-hand stroke, but it did not seem to him
that Sir James was very well satisfied with his skill.
"Thou fightest like a clodpole," said the old man. "Ha, that
stroke was but ill-recovered. Strike me it again, and get thou in
guard more quickly."
Myles repeated the stroke.
"Pest!" cried Sir James. "Thou art too slow by a week. Here,
strike thou the blow at me."
Myles hesitated. Sir James held a stout staff in his hand, but
otherwise he was unarmed.
"Strike, I say!" said Sir James. "What stayest thou for? Art
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Reminiscences of Tolstoy by Leo Tolstoy: and experienced Winger, who had been galloping on one side all
the time, would seize her opportunity, and spring in. The hare
would give a helpless cry like a baby, and the dogs, burying
their fangs in it, in a star-shaped group, would begin to tug in
different directions.
"Let go! Let go!"
We would come galloping up, finish off the hare, and give
the dogs the tracks,¹ tearing them off toe by toe, and
throwing them to our favorites, who would catch them in the air.
Then papa would teach us how to strap the hare on the back of the
saddle.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu by Sax Rohmer: havoc with my nerves.
"It was the Call of Siva!" replied Smith hoarsely.
"What is it? Who uttered it? What does it mean?"
"I don't know what it is, Petrie, nor who utters it.
But it means death!"
CHAPTER XIV
THERE may be some who could have lain, chained to that noisome cell,
and felt no fear--no dread of what the blackness might hold.
I confess that I am not one of these. I knew that Nayland
Smith and I stood in the path of the most stupendous genius
who in the world's history had devoted his intellect to crime.
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