| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: the camp, relieved only by the fitful flarings of the
fire that was kept up to warn off the man-eaters.
Tarzan lay quietly in his bonds. He suffered from
thirst and from the cutting of the tight strands about
his wrists and ankles; but he made no complaint.
A jungle beast was Tarzan with the stoicism of the beast
and the intelligence of man. He knew that his doom was
sealed--that no supplications would avail to temper the
severity of his end and so he wasted no breath in
pleadings; but waited patiently in the firm conviction
that his sufferings could not endure forever.
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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: et Teutonis a C. Mario pulsis [cum non minorem laudem exercitus quam ipse
imperator meritus videbatur]; factum etiam nuper in Italia servili
tumultu, quos tamen aliquid usus ac disciplina, quam a nobis accepissent,
sublevarint. Ex quo iudicari posse quantum haberet in se boni constantia,
propterea quod quos aliquam diu inermes sine causa timuissent hos postea
armatos ac victores superassent. Denique hos esse eosdem Germanos
quibuscum saepe numero Helvetii congressi non solum in suis sed etiam in
illorum finibus plerumque superarint, qui tamen pares esse nostro
exercitui non potuerint. Si quos adversum proelium et fuga Gallorum
commoveret, hos, si quaererent, reperire posse diuturnitate belli
defatigatis Gallis Ariovistum, cum multos menses castris se ac paludibus
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy: alarm. She soon explained that she had lost her way, and her
general depression was attributed to exhaustion on that account.
Could she have known what Marty was writing she would have been
surprised.
The rumor which agitated the other folk of Hintock had reached the
young girl, and she was penning a letter to Fitzpiers, to tell him
that Mrs. Charmond wore her hair. It was poor Marty's only card,
and she played it, knowing nothing of fashion, and thinking her
revelation a fatal one for a lover.
CHAPTER XXXIV.
It was at the beginning of April, a few days after the meeting
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