| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Miracle Mongers and Their Methods by Harry Houdini: it makes the water which he vomits up to
be of a more pale colour, and much like
our English beer.
He then brings his rouse again, and
drinks up fifteen or sixteen glasses of
luke-warm water, which the pail will
plentifully afford him: he will not bring
you up the pale Burgundian wine, which,
though more faint of complexion than the
claret, he will tell you is the purest wine
in Christendom. The strength of the Brazil
Miracle Mongers and Their Methods |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: in bello possent, sic reperiebat: plerosque Belgos esse ortos a Germanis
Rhenumque antiquitus traductos propter loci fertilitatem ibi consedisse
Gallosque qui ea loca incolerent expulisse, solosque esse qui, patrum
nostrorum memoria omni Gallia vexata, Teutonos Cimbrosque intra suos fines
ingredi prohibuerint; qua ex re fieri uti earum rerum memoria magnam sibi
auctoritatem Illagnosque spiritus in re militari sumerent. De numero
eorum omnia se habere explorata Remi dicebant, propterea quod
propinquitatibus adfinitatibus quo coniuncti quantam quisque multitudinem
in communi Belgarum concilio ad id bellum pollicitus sit cognoverint.
Plurimum inter eos Bellovacos et virtute et auctoritate et hominum numero
valere: hos posse conficere armata milia centum, pollicitos ex eo numero
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