| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Iliad by Homer: and both fight the Trojans yourself and urge others to do so.
They may be successful for the moment but if we fight as we ought
they will find it a hard matter to take the ships."
Teucer then took his bow and put it by in his tent. He hung a
shield four hides thick about his shoulders, and on his comely
head he set his helmet well wrought with a crest of horse-hair
that nodded menacingly above it; he grasped his redoubtable
bronze-shod spear, and forthwith he was by the side of Ajax.
When Hector saw that Teucer's bow was of no more use to him, he
shouted out to the Trojans and Lycians, "Trojans, Lycians, and
Dardanians good in close fight, be men, my friends, and show your
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Case of The Lamp That Went Out by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: his candle.
"Why, how funny! What are those mirrors there for?" asked the
electrician in a tone of surprise, pointing to two small mirrors
hanging in the window niche. They were placed at a height and at
such a peculiar angle that no one could possibly see his face
in them.
"Something the master is experimenting with, I guess. He's always
making queer experiments; he knows a lot about scientific things."
Muller shook his head as if in wonderment, and bent to investigate
the button which was fastened into the wall beneath the window sill.
His quick ear heard a carriage stopping in front of the house, and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from War and the Future by H. G. Wells: the repudiation of the entire education and training of Germany
for half a century. When we realise the fatality of this
antagonism, we realise how it is that, in this present
anticipation of hell, the weary, wasted and tormented nations
must still sustain their monstrous dreary struggle. And that is
why this thought that possible there may be a side way out, a
sort of turning over of the present endlessly hopeless game into
a new and different and manageable game through the introduction
of some external factor, creeps and spreads as I find it creeping
and spreading.
That is what the finer intelligences of America are beginning to
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