| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: una fuerant, quos primo hostium impetu pulsos dixeram, cum se in castra
reciperent, adversis hostibus occurrebant ac rursus aliam in partem fugam
petebant; et calones, qui ab decumana porta ac summo iugo collis nostros
victores flumen transire conspexerant, praedandi causa egressi, cum
respexissent et hostes in nostris castris versari vidissent, praecipites
fugae sese mandabant. Simul eorum qui cum impedimentis veniebant clamor
fremitusque oriebatur, aliique aliam in partem perterriti ferebantur.
Quibus omnibus rebus permoti equites Treveri, quorum inter Gallos virtutis
opinio est singularis, qui auxilii causa a civitate missi ad Caesarem
venerant, cum multitudine hostium castra [nostra] compleri, legiones premi
et paene circumventas teneri, calones, equites, tunditores, Numidas
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Contrast by Royall Tyler: with Maria, whether he married me or not. But, what-
ever were his intentions respecting your daughter, Sir,
even to me he was false; for he has repeated the same
story, with some cruel reflections upon my person, to
Miss Manly.
JONATHAN
What a tarnal curse!
LETITIA
Nor is this all, Miss Manly. When he was with
me this very morning, he made the same ungenerous
reflections upon the weakness of your mind as he has
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain: all his might for joy, and hugs him about fifteen times
before he lets up. Then the king says, "I knowed
it; I reckon THAT 'll convince anybody the way HE feels
about it. Here, Mary Jane, Susan, Joanner, take the
money -- take it ALL. It's the gift of him that lays
yonder, cold but joyful."
Mary Jane she went for him, Susan and the hare-lip
went for the duke, and then such another hugging and
kissing I never see yet. And everybody crowded up
with the tears in their eyes, and most shook the hands
off of them frauds, saying all the time:
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
