| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: Itaque prius quam quicquam conaretur, Diviciacum ad se vocari iubet et,
cotidianis interpretibus remotis, per C. Valerium Troucillum, principem
Galliae provinciae, familiarem suum, cui summam omnium rerum fidem
habebat, cum eo conloquitur; simul commonefacit quae ipso praesente in
concilio [Gallorum] de Dumnorige sint dicta, et ostendit quae separatim
quisque de eo apud se dixerit. Petit atque hortatur ut sine eius
offensione animi vel ipse de eo causa cognita statuat vel civitatem
statuere iubeat.
Diviciacus multis cum lacrimis Caesarem complexus obsecrare coepit ne
quid gravius in fratrem statueret: scire se illa esse vera, nec quemquam
ex eo plus quam se doloris capere, propterea quod, cum ipse gratia
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lady Baltimore by Owen Wister: "Oh, nothing so ineffectual! She makes her keep up with the others, you
know. Makes her do things she'd rather not do."
"High-balls, you mean?"
"Anything, my friend; anything to keep up."
He had a comic suggestion. "Driven to drink by her mother! Well, it's, at
any rate, a new cause for old effects." He paused. It seemed strangely to
bring to him some sort of relief. "That would explain a great deal," he
said.
Was he thus explaining to himself his lady-love, or rather certain
Newport aspects of her which had, so to speak, jarred upon his Kings Port
notions of what a lady might properly do? I sat on my gravestone with my
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Old Indian Legends by Zitkala-Sa: Warriors with long knives rushed forth and slew the
camp-eater.
Lo! there rose out of the giant a whole Indian tribe: their
camp ground, their teepees in a large circle, and the people
laughing and dancing.
"We are glad to be free!" said these strange people.
Thus Iya was killed; and no more are the camp grounds in
danger of being swallowed up in a single night time.
MANSTIN, THE RABBIT
MANSTIN, THE RABBIT
MANSTIN was an adventurous brave, but very kind-hearted.
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