| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Spirit of the Border by Zane Grey: cave, he asked Wetzel to let him try to lead the way back to camp. And he
never failed once, though many times he got off a straight course, thereby
missing the easy travelling.
Joe did wonderfully well, but he lacked, as nearly all white men do, the
subtler, intuitive forest-instinct, which makes the Indian as much at home in
the woods as in his teepee. Wetzel had this developed to a high degree. It
was born in him. Years of training, years of passionate, unrelenting search
for Indians, had given him a knowledge of the wilds that was incomprehensible
to white men, and appalling to his red foes.
Joe saw how Wetzel used this ability, but what it really was baffled him. He
realized that words were not adequate to explain fully this great art. Its
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from La Grenadiere by Honore de Balzac: the lamplight.
"My son!" she said. There was something so solemn in the dying woman's
tones, that the power of her wrought-up soul produced a violent
reaction on the boy; he felt an intense heat pass through the marrow
of his bones.
"What is it, mother?"
"Listen! To-morrow all will be over for me. We shall see each other no
more. To-morrow you will be a man, my child. So I am obliged to make
some arrangements, which must remain a secret, known only to us. Take
the key of my little table. That is it. Now open the drawer. You will
find two sealed papers to the left. There is the name of LOUIS on one,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: proximi Galliae ex Belgis sunt, ad eum legatos Iccium et Andebrogium,
primos civitatis, miserunt, qui dicerent se suaque omnia in fidem atque
potestatem populi Romani permittere, neque se cum reliquis Belgis
consensisse neque contra populum Romanum coniurasse, paratosque esse et
obsides dare et imperata facere et oppidis recipere et frumento ceterisque
rebus iuvare; reliquos omnes Belgas in armis esse, Germanosque qui cis
Rhenum incolant sese cum his coniunxisse, tantumque esse eorum omnium
furorem ut ne Suessiones quidem, fratres consanguineosque suos, qui eodem
iure et isdem legibus utantur, unum imperium unumque magistratum cum ipsis
habeant, deterrere potuelint quin cum iis consentirent.
Cum ab iis quaereret quae civitates quantaeque in armis essent et quid
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