| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain: but the ammonia which was being breathed through them had coated
them to the thickness of your hand with solid milk-white ice.
It ought to have melted; for one did not require winter clothing
in that atmosphere: but it did not melt; the inside of the pipe
was too cold.
Sunk into the floor were numberless tin boxes, a foot square and two
feet long, and open at the top end. These were full of clear water;
and around each box, salt and other proper stuff was packed; also, the ammonia
gases were applied to the water in some way which will always remain
a secret to me, because I was not able to understand the process.
While the water in the boxes gradually froze, men gave it a stir or
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Myths and Myth-Makers by John Fiske: In the story of Melusina the cloud-maiden appears as a kind of
mermaid, but in other respects the legend resembles that of
Urvasi. Raymond, Count de la Foret, of Poitou, having by an
accident killed his patron and benefactor during a hunting
excursion, fled in terror and despair into the deep recesses
of the forest. All the afternoon and evening he wandered
through the thick dark woods, until at midnight he came upon a
strange scene. All at once "the boughs of the trees became
less interlaced, and the trunks fewer; next moment his horse,
crashing through the shrubs, brought him out on a pleasant
glade, white with rime, and illumined by the new moon; in the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: eos ab se per fidem in conloquio circumventos. Postea quam in vulgus
militum elatum est qua arrogantia in conloquio Ariovistus usus omni Gallia
Romanis interdixisset, impetumque in nostros eius equites fecissent, eaque
res conloquium ut diremisset, multo maior alacritas studiumque pugnandi
maius exercitui iniectum est.
Biduo post Ariovistus ad Caesarem legatos misit: velle se de iis
rebus quae inter eos egi coeptae neque perfectae essent agere cum eo: uti
aut iterum conloquio diem constitueret aut, si id minus vellet, ex suis
legatis aliquem ad se mitteret. Conloquendi Caesari causa visa non est,
et eo magis quod pridie eius diei Germani retineri non potuerant quin tela
in nostros coicerent. Legatum ex suis sese magno cum periculo ad eum
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