| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Peter Pan by James M. Barrie: The Never bird saw at once what he was up to, and screamed her
admiration of him; and, alas, Peter crowed his agreement with
her. Then he got into the nest, reared the stave in it as a
mast, and hung up his shirt for a sail. At the same moment the
bird fluttered down upon the hat and once more sat snugly on her
eggs. She drifted in one direction, and he was borne off in
another, both cheering.
Of course when Peter landed he beached his barque [small ship,
actually the Never Bird's nest in this particular case in point]
in a place where the bird would easily find it; but the hat was
such a great success that she abandoned the nest. It drifted about
Peter Pan |
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: 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
locum delegerant.
Ac primo adventu exercitus nostri crebras ex oppido excursiones
faciebant parvulisque proeliis cum nostris contendebant; postea vallo
pedum XII in circuitu %XV% milium crebrisque castellis circummuniti oppido
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy: was longing to have a drink. There was nothing
in the house he could lay his hand on to take to
the public-house. He put on his cap and went
out. He walked along the street up to the house
where the priest and the deacon lived together.
The deacon's harrow stood outside leaning against
the hedge. Prokofy approached, took the har-
row upon his shoulder, and walked to an inn kept
by a woman, Petrovna. She might give him a
small bottle of vodka for it. But he had hardly
gone a few steps when the deacon came out of his
The Forged Coupon |
