| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Drama on the Seashore by Honore de Balzac: it up, looked at it, and carried it to his wife, who fell down as if
dead, seeing her own writing. Cambremer said nothing, but he went to
Croisic, and heard that his son was in a billiard room; so then he
went to the mistress of the cafe, and said to her:--
"'I told Jacques not to use a piece of gold with which he will pay
you; give it back to me, and I'll give you white money in place of
it.'
"The good woman did as she was told. Cambremer took the money and just
said 'Good,' and then he went home. So far, all the town knows that;
but now comes what I alone know, though others have always had some
suspicion of it. As I say, Cambremer came home; he told his wife to
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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: aestus excipere possent; prorae admodum erectae atque item puppes, ad
magnitudinem fluctuum tempestatumque accommodatae; naves totae factae ex
robore ad quamvis vim et contumeliam perferendam; transtra ex pedalibus in
altitudinem trabibus, confixa clavis ferreis digiti pollicis crassitudine;
ancorae pro funibus ferreis catenis revinctae; pelles pro velis alutaeque
tenuiter confectae, [hae] sive propter inopiam lini atque eius usus
inscientiam, sive eo, quod est magis veri simile, quod tantas tempestates
Oceani tantosque impetus ventorum sustineri ac tanta onera navium regi
velis non satis commode posse arbitrabantur. Cum his navibus nostrae
classi eius modi congressus erat ut una celeritate et pulsu remorum
praestaret, reliqua pro loci natura, pro vi tempestatum illis essent
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Confessio Amantis by John Gower: What maner thing himselven is,
Or he be man, or he be beste.
That holde I riht a sori feste,
Whan he that reson understod
So soudeinliche is woxe wod, 50
Or elles lich the dede man,
Which nouther go ne speke can.
Thus ofte he is to bedde broght,
Bot where he lith yit wot he noght,
Til he arise upon the morwe;
And thanne he seith, "O, which a sorwe
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