| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wrecker by Stevenson & Osbourne: say that it had better, perhaps, be put in black and white?"
The enmity always smouldering between the two men at this
ill-judged interruption almost burst in flame. The stonemason
turned upon his offspring, his long upper lip pulled down, for
all the world, like a monkey's. He stared a while in virulent
silence; and then "Get Gregg!" said he.
The effect of these words was very visible. "He will be gone to
his office," stammered my uncle.
"Get Gregg!" repeated my grandfather.
"I tell you, he will be gone to his office," reiterated Adam.
"And I tell ye, he's takin' his smoke," retorted the old man.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Little Rivers by Henry van Dyke: hour or two, in the early morning or evening of a hot day, in
wading this rushing stream, and casting the fly on its clear
waters? The wind blows softly down the narrow valley, and the
trees nod from the rocks above you. The noise of the falls makes
constant music in your ears. The river hurries past you, and yet
it is never gone.
The same foam-flakes seem to be always gliding downward, the same
spray dashing over the stones, the same eddy coiling at the edge of
the pool. Send your fly in under those cedar branches, where the
water swirls around by that old log. Now draw it up toward the
foam. There is a sudden gleam of dull gold in the white water.
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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: periculo et castra et legiones et imperator versaretur cognovissent, nihil
ad celeritatem sibi reliqui fecerunt.
Horum adventu tanta rerum commutatio est facta ut nostri, etiam qui
vulneribus confecti procubuissent, scutis innixi proelium redintegrarent,
calones perterritos hostes conspicati etiam inermes armatis occurrerent,
equites vero, ut turpitudinem fugae virtute delerent, omnibus in locis
pugnae se legionariis militibus praeferrent. At hostes, etiam in extrema
spe salutis, tantam virtutem praestiterunt ut, cum primi eorum
cecidissent, proximi iacentibus insisterent atque ex eorum corporibus
pugnarent, his deiectis et coacervatis cadaveribus qui superessent ut ex
tumulo tela in nostros coicerent et pila intercepta remitterent: ut non
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