| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mountains by Stewart Edward White: it. There is no shelter save behind great fortuitous
rocks. Huge marmots run over the boulders, like
little bears. The wind blows strong. The streams run
naked under the eye of the sun, exposing clear and
yellow every detail of their bottoms. In them there
are no deep hiding-places any more than there is
shelter in the land, and so every fish that swims shows
as plainly as in an aquarium.
We saw them as we rode over the hot dry shale
among the hot and twisted little trees. They lay
against the bottom, transparent; they darted away
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: penetrate as freely as possible through the nooses into the bosom,[18]
and the interior be as fully lit up as possible when the creature
makes his charge. The string round the top of the net must be attached
to some stout tree, and not to any mere shrub or thorn-bush, since
these light-bending branches will give way to strain on open
ground.[19] All about each net it will be well to stop with timber
even places[20] "where harbrough nis to see," so that the hulking
brute may drive a straight course[21] into the toils without tacking.
[15] Lit. "accordingly recover the dog, and tie her up also with the
rest," etc.
[16] {ormous}. Lit. "moorings," i.e. "favourite haunts." Cf. {dusorma}
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbot: thy liver?" "What you think you see, you see not," he replied;
"it is not given to you, nor to any other Being to behold
my internal parts. I am of a different order of Beings from those
in Flatland. Were I a Circle, you could discern my intestines,
but I am a Being, composed as I told you before, of many Circles,
the Many in the One, called in this country a Sphere. And,
just as the outside of a Cube is a Square, so the outside of a Sphere
presents the appearance of a Circle."
Bewildered though I was by my Teacher's enigmatic utterance,
I no longer chafed against it, but worshipped him in silent adoration.
He continued, with more mildness in his voice. "Distress not yourself
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