| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London: Why did I go broke in Seattle? Why did I take the steerage, and
live like a hog to Nome? Why did I go to the El Dorado? I was
heading for Big Pete's and only went for matches. Why didn't I
have matches? Why did I want to smoke? Don't you see? All
worked out, every bit of it, all parts fitting snug. Before I was
born, like as not. I'll put the sack I never hope to get on it,
before I was born. That's why! That's why John Randolph passed
the word and his checks in at the same time. Damn him! It served
him well right! Why didn't he keep his tongue between his teeth
and give me a chance? He knew I was next to broke. Why didn't I
hold my hand? Oh, why? Why? Why?"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Cavalry General by Xenophon: Weiske), transl. "to slip through their fingers."
[16] Zeune and other commentators cf Liv. v. 38 (Diod. xiv. 114), but
the part played by the Roman subsidiarii at the battle of the
Allia, if indeed "una salus fugientibus," was scarcely happy.
Would not "Hell." VII. v. 26 be more to the point? The detachment
of cavalry and infantry placed by Epaminondas "on certain crests,
to create an apprehension in the minds of the Athenians" in that
quarter of the field at Mantinea was a {mekhanema} of the kind
here contemplated.
Another serviceable expedient will be to discover on which side a
friendly force may suddenly appear and without risk to itself put a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela: at Celaya by Obregon and Carranza is winning all
along the line! We're done for!"
Valderrama's gesture was disdainful and solemn as
an emperor's. "Villa? Obregon? Carranza? What's the
difference? I love the revolution like a volcano in erup-
tion; I love the volcano because it's a volcano, the revolu-
tion because it's the revolution! What do I care about
the stones left above or below after the cataclysm? What
are they to me?"
In the glare of the midday sun the reflection of a
white tequila bottle glittered on his forehead; and, jubi-
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