| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: suspected ship. The next day, as by an after-thought, war and
martial law were proclaimed for the Samoan Islands, the
introduction of contraband of war forbidden, and ships and boats
declared liable to search. "All support of the rebels will be
punished by martial law," continued the proclamation, "no matter to
what nationality the person [THATER] may belong."
Hand, it has been seen, declined to act in the matter of the
RICHMOND without the concurrence of his consul; but I have found no
evidence that either Hand or Knappe communicated with de Coetlogon,
with whom they were both at daggers drawn. First the seizure and
next the proclamation seem to have burst on the English consul from
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert: At the sight of this the besieged forsook the rampart.
Matho had said to himself that if he could pass between the walls and
Narr' Havas's tents with such rapidity that the Numidians had not time
to come out, he could fall upon the rear of the Carthaginian infantry,
who would be caught between his division and those inside. He dashed
out with his veterans.
Narr' Havas perceived him; he crossed the shore of the lake, and came
to warn Hanno to dispatch men to Hamilcar's assistance. Did he believe
Barca too weak to resist the Mercenaries? Was it a piece of treachery
or folly? No one could ever learn.
Hanno, desiring to humiliate his rival, did not hesitate. He shouted
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Parmenides by Plato: Then that which had become younger becomes older relatively to that which
previously had become and was older; it never really is older, but is
always becoming, for the one is always growing on the side of youth and the
other on the side of age. And in like manner the older is always in
process of becoming younger than the younger; for as they are always going
in opposite directions they become in ways the opposite to one another, the
younger older than the older, and the older younger than the younger. They
cannot, however, have become; for if they had already become they would be
and not merely become. But that is impossible; for they are always
becoming both older and younger than one another: the one becomes younger
than the others because it was seen to be older and prior, and the others
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