| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Grimm's Fairy Tales by Brothers Grimm: played with them and lost some of his money, but when it struck
twelve, everything vanished from his sight. He lay down and quietly
fell asleep. Next morning the king came to inquire after him. 'How has
it fared with you this time?' asked he. 'I have been playing at nine-
pins,' he answered, 'and have lost a couple of farthings.' 'Have you
not shuddered then?' 'What?' said he, 'I have had a wonderful time! If
I did but know what it was to shudder!'
The third night he sat down again on his bench and said quite sadly:
'If I could but shudder.' When it grew late, six tall men came in and
brought a coffin. Then he said: 'Ha, ha, that is certainly my little
cousin, who died only a few days ago,' and he beckoned with his
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: opinionem virtutis proelio supersedere statuit; cotidie tamen equestribus
proeliis quid hostis virtute posset et quid nostri auderent
periclitabatur. Ubi nostros non esse inferiores intellexit, loco pro
castris ad aciem instruendam natura oportuno atque idoneo, quod is collis
ubi castra posita erant paululum ex planitie editus tantum adversus in
latitudinem patebat quantum loci acies instructa occupare poterat, atque
ex utraque parte lateris deiectus habebat et in fronte leniter fastigatus
paulatim ad planitiem redibat, ab utroque latere eius collis transversam
fossam obduxit circiter passuum CCCC et ad extremas fossas castella
constituit ibique tormenta conlocavit, ne, cum aciem instruxisset, hostes,
quod tantum multitudine poterant, ab lateribus pugnantes suos circumvenire
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In the South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson: at sight of which Mapiao displayed extraordinary animation, pointed
to the zenith, made a long speech in which I picked up UMATI - the
word for the sun - and signed to me once more to place these
dainties out of reach. At last I had understood, and every day the
programme was the same. At an early period of the morning his
dinner must be set forth on the roof of the house and at a proper
distance, full in view but just out of reach; and not until the fit
hour, which was the point of noon, would the artificer partake.
This solemnity was the cause of an absurd misadventure. He was
seated plaiting, as usual, at the beards, his dinner arrayed on the
roof, and not far off a glass of water standing. It appears he
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