| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Maid Marian by Thomas Love Peacock: had made a sortie on the other, and that they had killed the guards,
and set fire to the machine, before the rest of the camp could come
to the assistance of their fellows.
The night was in itself intensely dark, and the fire-light
shed around it a vivid and unnatural radiance. On one side,
the crimson light quivered by its own agitation on the waveless moat,
and on the bastions and buttresses of the castle, and their
shadows lay in massy blackness on the illuminated walls:
on the other, it shone upon the woods, streaming far within
among the open trunks, or resting on the closer foliage.
The circumference of darkness bounded the scene on all sides:
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: attire, and of the citizens not a few. Sitting in the front,
according to custom, in the audience of all he said, "Lo, as ye
see, Abenner, my father the king, hath died like any beggar.
Neither wealth nor kingly glory, nor I his loving son, nor any of
his kith and kindred, has availed to help him, or to save him
from the sentence without reprieve. But he is gone to yonder
judgement seat, to give account of his life in this world,
carrying with him no advocate whatsoever, except his deeds, good
or bad. And the same law is ordained by nature for every man
born of woman, and there is no escape. Now, therefore, hearken
unto me, friends and brethren, people and holy heritage of the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad: was making correct entries of perfectly correct transactions;
and fifty feet below the doorstep I could see the still
tree-tops of the grove of death.
"Next day I left that station at last, with a caravan of sixty men,
for a two-hundred-mile tramp.
"No use telling you much about that. Paths, paths, everywhere;
a stamped-in network of paths spreading over the empty land,
through the long grass, through burnt grass, through thickets,
down and up chilly ravines, up and down stony hills ablaze
with heat; and a solitude, a solitude, nobody, not a hut.
The population had cleared out a long time ago. Well, if a lot
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