| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: res praeparata a nostris, falces praeacutae insertae adfixaeque longuriis,
non absimili forma muralium falcium. His cum funes qui antemnas ad malos
destinabant comprehensi adductique erant, navigio remis incitato
praerumpebantur. Quibus abscisis antemnae necessario concidebant, ut, cum
omnis Gallicis navibus spes in velis armamentisque consisteret, his
ereptis omnis usus navium uno tempore eriperetur. Reliquum erat certamen
positum in virtute, qua nostri milites facile superabant, atque eo magis
quod in conspectu Caesaris atque omnis exercitus res gerebatur, ut nullum
paulo fortius factum latere posset; omnes enim colles ac loca superiora,
unde erat propinquus despectus in mare, ab exercitu tenebantur.
Deiectis, ut diximus, antemnis, cum singulas binae ac ternae naves
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Wrecker by Stevenson & Osbourne: "And what--what sort of a gentleman was this Mr. Carthew?" I
gasped.
"The ward-room steward told me he was come of the best
blood in England," was my friend's reply: "Eton and 'Arrow
bred;--and might have been a bar'net!"
"No, but to look at?" I corrected him.
"The same as you or me," was the uncompromising answer:
"not much to look at. I didn't know he was a gen'lem'n; but
then, I never see him cleaned up."
"How was that?" I cried. "O yes, I remember: he was sick all
the way to 'Frisco, was he not?"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert: the touch, and his yellow face, which was deeply furrowed with
wrinkles, was as if it contracted in a longing, in an everlasting
grief.
He was the high priest of Tanith, and it was he who had educated
Salammbo.
"Speak!" he said. "What will you?"
"I hoped--you had almost promised me--" She stammered and was
confused; then suddenly: "Why do you despise me? what have I forgotten
in the rites? You are my master, and you told me that no one was so
accomplished in the things pertaining to the goddess as I; but there
are some of which you will not speak. Is it so, O father?"
Salammbo |
