| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen: volume, laid it on the table, and resumed the cigar he had put
down.
"Did you know Arthur Meyrick the painter, Villiers?"
"A little; I met him two or three times at the house of
a friend of mine. What has become of him? I haven't heard his
name mentioned for some time."
"He's dead."
"You don't say so! Quite young, wasn't he?"
"Yes; only thirty when he died."
"What did he die of?"
"I don't know. He was an intimate friend of mine, and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Pool of Blood in the Pastor's Study by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: "When?"
"Last night."
"Who is the victim?"
"Our pastor."
"How was he killed?"
We do not know."
"You are not a physician, then?" asked Muller, turning to Orszay.
"Yes, I am," answered the latter.
"Well?"
"The body is missing," said Orszay, somewhat sharply.
"Missing?" Muller became greatly interested. "Will you please
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: nostros in castris continerent et hostem a pugna prohiberent. Interim
barbari nuntios in omnes partes dimiserunt paucitatemque nostrorum militum
suis praedicaverunt et quanta praedae faciendae atque in perpetuum sui
liberandi facultas daretur, si Romanos castris expulissent, demonstra;
verunt. His rebus celeriter magna multitudine peditatus equitatusque
coacta ad castra venerunt.
Caesar, etsi idem quod superioribus diebus acciderat fore videbat, ut,
si essent hostes pulsi, celeritate periculum effugerent, tamen nactus
equites circiter XXX, quos Commius Atrebas, de quo ante dictum est, secum
transportaverat, legiones in acie pro castris constituit. Commisso
proelio diutius nostrorum militum impetum hostes ferre non potuerunt ac
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