| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Master and Man by Leo Tolstoy: was the sound of the passage door as it came unstuck, then the
latch of the outside door clicked and a tall white-bearded
peasant, with a sheepskin coat thrown over his white holiday
shirt, pushed his way out holding the door firmly against the
wind, followed by a lad in a red shirt and high leather boots.
'Is that you, Andreevich?' asked the old man.
'Yes, friend, we've gone astray,' said Vasili Andreevich. 'We
wanted to get to Goryachkin but found ourselves here. We went
a second time but lost our way again.'
'Just see how you have gone astray!' said the old man.
'Petrushka, go and open the gate!' he added, turning to the lad
Master and Man |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: uncertainty tainted the solid courage of his knighthood.
Then he heard the criers calling the defendant at the four
corners of the list: "Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! William Bushy Brookhurst,
Earl of Alban, come to this combat, in which you be enterprised
this day to discharge your sureties before the King, the
Constable, and the Marshal, and to encounter in your defence
Myles Falworth, knight, the accepted champion upon behalf of
Gilbert Reginald Falworth, the challenger! Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! Let
the defendant come!"
So they continued calling, until, by the sudden turning of all
faces, Myles knew that his enemy was at hand.
Men of Iron |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: timentibus nostris, quod legati eorum paulo ante a Caesare discesserant
atque is dies indutiis erat ab his petitus, impetu facto celeriter nostros
perturbaverunt; rursus his resistentibus consuetudine sua ad pedes
desiluerunt subfossis equis compluribus nostris deiectis reliquos in fugam
coniecerunt atque ita perterritos egerunt ut non prius fuga desisterent
quam in conspectum agminis nostri venissent. In eo proelio ex equitibus
nostris interficiuntur IIII et LXX, in his vir fortissimus Piso Aquitanus,
amplissimo genere natus, cuius avus in civitate sua regnum obtinuerat
amicus a senatu nostro appellatus. Hic cum fratri intercluso ab hostibus
auxilium ferret, illum ex periculo eripuit, ipse equo vulnerato deiectus,
quoad potuit, fortissime restitit; cum circumventus multis vulneribus
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