| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: contenderunt, quod esse post nostra castra demonstratum est. Ibi vadis
repertis partem suarum copiarum traducere conati sunt eo consilio ut, si
possent, castellum, cui praeerat Q. Titurius legatus, expugnarent
pontemque interscinderent, si minus potuissent, agros Remorum
popularentur, qui magno nobis usui ad bellum gerendum erant, commeatuque
nostros prohiberent.
certior factus ab Titurio onlnem equitatum et levis armaturae
Numidas, funditores sagittariosque pontem traducit atque ad eos contendit.
Acriter in eo loco pugnatum est. Hostes impeditos nostri in flumine
adgressi magnum eorum numerum occiderunt; per eorum corpora reliquos
audacissime transire conantes multitudine telorum reppulerunt primosque,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Paradise Lost by John Milton: Soon dried, and on the reeking moisture fed.
Straight toward Heaven my wondering eyes I turned,
And gazed a while the ample sky; till, raised
By quick instinctive motion, up I sprung,
As thitherward endeavouring, and upright
Stood on my feet: about me round I saw
Hill, dale, and shady woods, and sunny plains,
And liquid lapse of murmuring streams; by these,
Creatures that lived and moved, and walked, or flew;
Birds on the branches warbling; all things smiled;
With fragrance and with joy my heart o'erflowed.
Paradise Lost |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: Isabella, judiciously thinking that he would be most accessible
to argument couched in his own metaphorical style, "what then is
to befall them?"
"Let them starve, die, and be forgotten; it is the common lot of
humanity."
"It is the lot of the wild tribes of nature," said Isabella, "but
chiefly of those who are destined to support themselves by
rapine, which brooks no partner; but it is not the law of nature
in general; even the lower orders have confederacies for mutual
defence. But mankind--the race would perish did they cease to
aid each other.--From the time that the mother binds the child's
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