| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Poems of William Blake by William Blake: Or did she only live to be at death the food of worms.
The Cloud reclind upon his airy throne and answerd thus.
Then if thou art the food of worms, O virgin of the skies,
How great thy use, how great thy blessing, every thing that lives.
Lives not alone nor or itself: fear not and I will call,
The weak worm from its lowly bed, and thou shalt hear its voice.
Come forth worm and the silent valley, to thy pensive queen.
The helpless worm arose and sat upon the Lillys leaf,
And the bright Cloud saild on, to find his partner in the vale.
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Then Thel astonish'd view'd the Worm upon its dewy bed.
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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: castellisque desertis sua omnia in unum oppidum egregie natura munitum
contulerunt. Quod cum ex omnibus in circuitu partibus altissimas rupes
deiectusque haberet, una ex parte leniter acclivis aditus in latitudinem
non amplius pedum CC relinquebatur; quem locum duplici altissimo muro
munierant; tum magni ponderis saxa et praeacutas trabes in muro
conlocabant. Ipsi erant ex Cimbris Teutonisque prognati, qui, cum iter in
provinciam nostram atque Italiam; facerent, iis impedimentis quae secum
agere ac portare non poterant citra flumen Rhenum depositis custodiae [ex
suis] ac praesidio VI milia hominum una reliquerant. Hi post eorum obitum
multos annos a finitimis exagitati, cum alias bellum inferrent, alias
inlatum defenderent, consensu eorum omnium pace facta hunc sibi domicilio
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tales of Unrest by Joseph Conrad: slightly over in his saddle, and said--
"It is very sad. You have all my sympathy. I shall speak to the Cure.
She was unquestionably insane, and the fall was accidental. Millot
says so distinctly. Good-day, Madame."
And he trotted off, thinking to himself: "I must get this old woman
appointed guardian of those idiots, and administrator of the farm. It
would be much better than having here one of those other Bacadous,
probably a red republican, corrupting my commune."
AN OUTPOST OF PROGRESS
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There were two white men in charge of the trading station. Kayerts,
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