| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: essedariis, quo plerumque genere in proeliis uti consuerunt, reliquis
copiis subsecuti nostros navibus egredi prohibebant. Erat ob has causas
summa difficultas, quod naves propter magnitudinem nisi in alto constitui
non poterant, militibus autem, ignotis locis, impeditis manibus, magno et
gravi onere armorum oppressis simul et de navibus desiliendum et in
auctibus consistendum et cum hostibus erat pugnandum, cum illi aut ex
arido aut paulum in aquam progressi omnibus membris expeditis, notissimis
locis, audacter tela coicerent et equos insuefactos incitarent. Quibus
rebus nostri perterriti atque huius omnino generis pugnae imperiti, non
eadem alacritate ac studio quo in pedestribus uti proeliis consuerant
utebantur.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London: the sled that she might sit beside him.
"And how goes it, Sipsu?" he asked, talking, after her fashion, in
broken English and bastard Chinook. "Is the hunger still mighty
in the camp? and has the witch doctor yet found the cause
wherefore game is scarce and no moose in the land?"
"Yes; even so. There is little game, and we prepare to eat the
dogs. Also has the witch doctor found the cause of all this evil,
and to-morrow will he make sacrifice and cleanse the camp."
"And what does the sacrifice chance to be?--a new-born babe or
some poor devil of a squaw, old and shaky, who is a care to the
tribe and better out of the way?"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Apology by Plato: the same in all my actions, public as well as private, and never have I
yielded any base compliance to those who are slanderously termed my
disciples, or to any other. Not that I have any regular disciples. But if
any one likes to come and hear me while I am pursuing my mission, whether
he be young or old, he is not excluded. Nor do I converse only with those
who pay; but any one, whether he be rich or poor, may ask and answer me and
listen to my words; and whether he turns out to be a bad man or a good one,
neither result can be justly imputed to me; for I never taught or professed
to teach him anything. And if any one says that he has ever learned or
heard anything from me in private which all the world has not heard, let me
tell you that he is lying.
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