| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Spirit of the Border by Zane Grey: before this he had drawn his knife, and now he used it, plunging the blade
into the young man's side.
Cunning and successful as was the savage's ruse, it failed signally, for to
get hold of the Shawnee was all Joe wanted. Feeling the sharp pain as they
fell together, he reached his hand behind him and caught Silvertip's wrist.
Exerting all his power, he wrenched the Indian's arm so that it was not only
dislocated, but the bones cracked.
Silvertip saw his fatal mistake, but he uttered no sound. Crippled, though he
was, he yet made a supreme effort, but it was as if he had been in the hands
of a giant. The lad handled him with remorseless and resistless fury. Suddenly
he grasped the knife, which Silvertip had been unable to hold with his
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from An Old Maid by Honore de Balzac: in her matrimonial manoeuvres. The worthy soul, now seventy years of
age, attributed the disasters of the French Revolution to the design
of Providence, eager to punish a dissolute Church. He had therefore
flung himself into the path, long since abandoned, which anchorites
once followed in order to reach heaven: he led an ascetic life without
proclaiming it, and without external credit. He hid from the world his
works of charity, his continual prayers, his penances; he thought that
all priests should have acted thus during the days of wrath and
terror, and he preached by example. While presenting to the world a
calm and smiling face, he had ended by detaching himself utterly from
earthly interests; his mind turned exclusively to sufferers, to the
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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: market about this. We must be guided by their tongue, the manner
of their speech, and do our translating accordingly. Then they
will understand it and recognize that we are speaking German to
them.
For instance, Christ says: Ex abundatia cordis os loquitur. If I
am to follow these asses, they will lay the original before me
literally and translate it as: "Out of the abundance of the heart
the mouth speaks." Is that speaking with a German tongue? What
German could understand something like that? What is this
"abundance of the heart?" No German can say that; unless, of
course, he was trying to say that someone was altogether too
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