| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: him and his tribe the hilltop that had been their an-
cestral home for ages until they were robbed of it by
Hooja. I created a kingdom of the island, making Juag
king there. Before we sailed I went to Gr-gr-gr, chief of
the beast-men, taking Juag with me. There the three of
us arranged a code of laws that would permit the brute-
folk and the human beings of the island to live in peace
and harmony. Gr-gr-gr sent his son with me back to
Sari, capital of my empire, that he might learn the
ways of the human beings. I have hopes of turning this
race into the greatest agriculturists of Pellucidar.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Unconscious Comedians by Honore de Balzac: Bixiou.
"Twenty per cent!" whispered Gazonal to Bixiou, who replied by a punch
of his elbow in the provincial's oesophagus.
"Bless me!" said Vauvinet opening a drawer in his desk as if to put
away the Ravenouillet notes, "here's an old bill of five hundred
francs stuck in the drawer! I didn't know I was so rich. And here's a
note payable at the end of the month for four hundred and fifty;
Cerizet will take it without much diminution, and there's your sum in
hand. But no nonsense, Bixiou! Hein? to-night, at Carabine's, will you
swear to me--"
"Haven't we RE-friended?" said Bixiou, pocketing the five-hundred-
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from An Open Letter on Translating by Dr. Martin Luther: myself. If I do not do it, then they can leave my translations in
peace. They can each do a translation that suits them - what do I
care?
To this I can, with good conscience, give witness - that I gave my
utmost effort and care and I had no ulterior motives. I have not
taken or wanted even a small coin in return. Neither have I made
any by it. God knows that I have not even sought honor by it, but
I have done it as a service to the blessed Christians and to the
honor of the One who sits above who blesses me every hour of my
life that had I translated a thousand times more diligently, I
should not have deserved to live or have a sound eye for even a
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