| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: concertissima acie, reiecto nostro equitatu, phalange facta sub primam
nostram aciem successerunt.
Caesar primum suo, deinde omnium ex conspectu remotis equis, ut
aequato omnium periculo spem fugae tolleret, cohortatus suos proelium
commisit. Milites loco superiore pilis missis facile hostium phalangem
perfregerunt. Ea disiecta gladiis destrictis in eos impetum fecerunt.
Gallis magno ad pugnam erat impedimento quod pluribus eorum scutis uno
ictu pilorum transfixis et conligatis, cum ferrum se inflexisset, neque
evellere neque sinistra impedita satis commode pugnare poterant, multi ut
diu iactato bracchio praeoptarent scutum manu emittere et nudo corpore
pugnare. Tandem vulneribus defessi et pedem referre et, quod mons suberit
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Father Sergius by Leo Tolstoy: the young man did not believe but yet was satisfied, tranquil,
and at ease, and the memory of that conversation now disquieted
him.
'Have something to eat, Father,' said the attendant.
'All right, bring me something.'
The attendant went to a hut that had been arranged some ten paces
from the cave, and Father Sergius remained alone.
The time was long past when he had lived alone doing everything
for himself and eating only rye-bread, or rolls prepared for the
Church. He had been advised long since that he had no right to
neglect his health, and he was given wholesome, though Lenten,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tess of the d'Urbervilles, A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy: thought of the newly-married couple, and envied their
happiness.
Angel cast a final glance round, and then going to the
foot of the stairs, called in a conventional voice----
"Breakfast is ready!"
He opened the front door, and took a few steps in the
morning air. When, after a short space, he came back
she was already in the sitting-room mechanically
readjusting the breakfast things. As she was fully
attired, and the interval since his calling her had
been but two or three minutes, she must have been
Tess of the d'Urbervilles, A Pure Woman |
