| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: peteret, Caesar eius dextram prendit; consolatus rogat finem orandi
faciat; tanti eius apud se gratiam esse ostendit uti et rei publicae
iniuriam et suum dolorem eius voluntati ac precibus condonet. Dumnorigem
ad se vocat, fratrem adhibet; quae in eo reprehendat ostendit; quae ipse
intellegat, quae civitas queratur proponit; monet ut in reliquum tempus
omnes suspiciones vitet; praeterita se Diviciaco fratri condonare dicit.
Dumnorigi custodes ponit, ut quae agat, quibuscum loquatur scire possit.
Eodem die ab exploratoribus certior factus hostes sub monte consedisse
milia passuum ab ipsius castris octo, qualis esset natura montis et qualis
in circuitu ascensus qui cognoscerent misit.Renuntiatum est facilem esse.
De tertia vigilia T. Labienum, legatum pro praetore, cum duabus legionibus
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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: his flask, because mine was empty. I drank some, and then I thought I
would go and see if the river was going down. I remember that I walked to
the road, and it seemed to be going away from me. When I woke up I was
lying by a little bush on the bank of the river. It was afternoon; all the
clouds had gone, and the sky was deep blue. The Bushman boy was grilling
ribs at the fire. He looked at me and grinned from ear to ear. 'Master
was a little nice,' he said, 'and lay down in the road. Something might
ride over master, so I carried him there.' He grinned at me again. It was
as though he said, 'You and I are comrades. I have lain in a road, too. I
know all about it.'
"When I turned my head from him I saw the earth, so pure after the rain, so
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald: trouble."
"What can you do, Burne? What can you do against Phyllis?"
But Burne only shook his head and muttered threats which
consisted largely of the phrase: "She'll see, she'll see!"
The blithesome Phyllis bore her twenty-five summers gayly from
the train, but on the platform a ghastly sight met her eyes.
There were Burne and Fred Sloane arrayed to the last dot like the
lurid figures on college posters. They had bought flaring suits
with huge peg-top trousers and gigantic padded shoulders. On
their heads were rakish college hats, pinned up in front and
sporting bright orange-and-black bands, while from their
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