| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: angustis mare continebatur, uti ex locis superioribus in litus telum adigi
posset. Hunc ad egrediendum nequaquam idoneum locum arbitratus, dum
reliquae naves eo convenirent ad horam nonam in ancoris expectavit.
Interim legatis tribunisque militum convocatis et quae ex Voluseno
cognovisset et quae fieri vellet ostendit monuitque, ut rei militaris
ratio, maximeque ut maritimae res postularent, ut, cum celerem atque
instabilem motum haberent, ad nutum et ad tempus D omnes res ab iis
administrarentur. His dimissis, et VII ab eo loco progressus aperto ac
plano litore naves constituit.
At barbari, consilio Romanorum cognito praemisso equitatu et
essedariis, quo plerumque genere in proeliis uti consuerunt, reliquis
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: her days passed, and if my brother Geoffrey persecuted her to marry
him, and whether or no she would resist his importunities and her
father's. And so as I walked musing I came to a water-gate that
opened on to the Guadalquivir, and leaning upon the coping of a low
wall I rested there idly to consider the beauty of the night. In
truth it was a lovely, night, for across all these years I remember
it. Let those who have seen it say if they know any prospect more
beautiful than the sight of the August moon shining on the broad
waters of the Guadalquivir and the clustering habitations of the
ancient city.
Now as I leaned upon the wall and looked, I saw a man pass up the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Poems by T. S. Eliot: "For everybody said so, all our friends,
They all were sure our feelings would relate
So closely! I myself can hardly understand.
We must leave it now to fate.
You will write, at any rate.
Perhaps it is not too late.
I shall sit here, serving tea to friends."
And I must borrow every changing shape
To find expression ... dance, dance
Like a dancing bear,
Cry like a parrot, chatter like an ape.
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