| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela: The woman stared into the darkness of the sierra.
"What if they're soldiers?" said a man, who sat In-
dian-fashion, eating, a coarse earthenware plate in his
right hand, three folded tortillas in the other.
The woman made no answer, all her senses directed
outside the hut. The beat of horses' hoofs rang in the
quarry nearby. The dog barked again, louder and more
angrily.
"Well, Demetrio, I think you had better hide, all the
same."
Stolidly, the man finished eating; next he reached for
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner: fingers of the German, who sat on the mud floor mending the bottom of a
chair.
Presently he looked out, where, in the afternoon sunshine, a few half-grown
ostriches might be seen wandering listlessly about, and then he looked in
again at the little whitewashed room, and at Lyndall, who sat in the
doorway looking at a book. Then he raised his chin and tried to adjust an
imaginary shirt-collar. Finding none, he smoothed the little grey fringe
at the back of his head, and began:
"You are a student of history, I perceive, my friend, from the study of
these volumes that lie scattered about this apartment; this fact has been
made evident to me."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Smalcald Articles by Dr. Martin Luther: scribes in the time of Christ.
Here comes the fiery angel, St. John [Rev. 10], the true
preacher of [true] repentance, and with one [thunderclap and]
bolt hurls both [those selling and those buying works] on one
heap, and says: Repent! Matt. 3, 2. Now, the former [the poor
wretches] imagine: Why, we have repented! The latter [the
rest] say: We need no repentance. John says: Repent ye, both
of you, for ye are false penitents; so are these [the rest]
false saints [or hypocrites], and all of you on either side
need the forgiveness of sins, because neither of you know what
true sin is not to say anything about your duty to repent of
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