| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Aeneid by Virgil: Nor Venus' veil is here, near Neptune's shield;
Thy fatal hour is come, and this the field."
Thus Liger vainly vaunts: the Trojan
Return'd his answer with his flying spear.
As Lucagus, to lash his horses, bends,
Prone to the wheels, and his left foot protends,
Prepar'd for fight; the fatal dart arrives,
And thro' the borders of his buckler drives;
Pass'd thro' and pierc'd his groin: the deadly wound,
Cast from his chariot, roll'd him on the ground.
Whom thus the chief upbraids with scornful spite:
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Hero of Our Time by M.Y. Lermontov: now grown up. I should have liked to erect a
cross, but that would not have done, you know --
after all, she was not a Christian."
"And what of Pechorin?" I asked.
"Pechorin was ill for a long time, and grew
thin, poor fellow; but we never spoke of Bela
from that time forth. I saw that it would be dis-
agreeable to him, so what would have been the
use? About three months later he was appointed
to the E---- Regiment, and departed for
Georgia. We have never met since. Yet, when
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: and returning again and again to the same remark with the
same sprightliness, the same irritating appearance of
novelty.
After this set, any one is tolerable; so we shall merely hint
at a few other varieties. There is your man who is pre-
eminently conscientious, whose face beams with sincerity as
he opens on the negative, and who votes on the affirmative at
the end, looking round the room with an air of chastened
pride. There is also the irrelevant speaker, who rises,
emits a joke or two, and then sits down again, without ever
attempting to tackle the subject of debate. Again, we have
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