| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: make common cause with the rebels?" exclaimed the Czar.
"Excuse me, your majesty," stammered the chief of
police, for that was really the idea suggested to him by his
uneasy and suspicious mind.
"I believe in their patriotism," returned the Czar.
"There are other offenders besides political exiles in
Siberia," said the chief of police.
"The criminals? Oh, General, I give those up to you!
They are the vilest, I grant, of the human race. They
belong to no country. But the insurrection, or rather, the
rebellion, is not to oppose the emperor; it is raised against
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: ex omni numero noctis interventu ad terram per venirent, cum ab hora fere
IIII. usque ad solis occasum pugnaretur.
Quo proelio bellum Venetorum totiusque orae maritimae confectum est.
Nam cum omnis iuventus, omnes etiam gravioris aetatis in quibus aliquid
consilii aut dignitatis fuit eo convenerant, tum navium quod ubique fuerat
in unum locum coegerant; quibus amissis reliqui neque quo se reciperent
neque quem ad modum oppida defenderent habebant. Itaque se suaque omnia
Caesari dediderunt. In quos eo gravius Caesar vindicandum statuit quo
diligentius in reliquum tempus a barbaris ius legatorum conservaretur.
Itaque omni senatu necato reliquos sub corona vendidit.
Dum haec in Venetis geruntur, Q. Titurius Sabinus cum iis copiis quas
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: which I avoid with the patients as I would the mouth of hell.
(Mem., Under what circumstances would I not avoid the pit
of hell?) Omnia Romae venalia sunt. Hell has its price!
If there be anything behind this instinct it will be valuable
to trace it afterwards accurately, so I had better commence
to do so, therefore. . .
R. M, Renfield, age 59. Sanguine temperament, great physical strength,
morbidly excitable, periods of gloom, ending in some fixed idea which I
cannot make out. I presume that the sanguine temperament itself
and the disturbing influence end in a mentally-accomplished finish,
a possibly dangerous man, probably dangerous if unselfish. In selfish
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