| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne: harbor, with a whistling breeze behind them. Talus, the brazen
giant, on his never-ceasing sentinel's march, happened to be
approaching that part of the coast; and they saw him, by the
glimmering of the moonbeams on his polished surface, while he
was yet a great way off. As the figure moved like clockwork,
however, and could neither hasten his enormous strides nor
retard them, he arrived at the port when they were just beyond
the reach of his club. Nevertheless, straddling from headland
to headland, as his custom was, Talus attempted to strike a
blow at the vessel, and, overreaching himself, tumbled at full
length into the sea, which splashed high over his gigantic
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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: In castris Hevetiorum tabulae repertae sunt litteris Graecis confectae
et ad Caesarem relatae, quibus in tabulis nominatim ratio confecta erat,
qui numerus domo exisset eorum qui arma ferre possent, et item separatim,
pueri, senes mulieresque. [Quarum omnium rerum] summa erat capitum
Helvetiorum milium CCLXIII, Tulingorum milium XXXVI, Latobrigorum XIIII,
Rauracorum XXIII, Boiorum XXXII; ex his qui arma ferre possent ad milia
nonaginta duo. Summa omnium fuerunt ad milia CCCLXVIII. Eorum qui domum
redierunt censu habito, ut Caesar imperaverat, repertus est numerus milium
C et X.
Bello Helvetiorum confecto totius fere Galliae legati, principes
civitatum, ad Caesarem gratulatum convenerunt: intellegere sese, tametsi
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Pupil by Henry James: rejoicing that school was out of the question: in any million of
boys it was probably good for all but one, and Morgan was that
millionth. It would have made him comparative and superior - it
might have made him really require kicking. Pemberton would try to
be school himself - a bigger seminary than five hundred grazing
donkeys, so that, winning no prizes, the boy would remain
unconscious and irresponsible and amusing - amusing, because,
though life was already intense in his childish nature, freshness
still made there a strong draught for jokes. It turned out that
even in the still air of Morgan's various disabilities jokes
flourished greatly. He was a pale lean acute undeveloped little
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