| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Burning Daylight by Jack London: around the place. I could do hack work for the magazines and
newspapers; but I prefer the ploughing and the grape picking.
Just look at me and you can see why. I'm hard as rocks. And I
like the work. But I tell you a chap's got to break in to it.
It's a great thing when he's learned to pick grapes a whole long
day and come home at the end of it with that tired happy feeling,
instead of being in a state of physical collapse. That
fireplace--those big stones--I was soft, then, a little, anemic,
alcoholic degenerate, with the spunk of a rabbit and about one
per cent as much stamina, and some of those big stones nearly
broke my back and my heart. But I persevered, and used my body
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Hated Son by Honore de Balzac: the great hall.
At this epoch of our history, a duke and peer, with great possessions,
holding public offices and the government of a province, lived the
life of a prince; the cadets of his family did not revolt at serving
him. He had his household guard and officers; the first lieutenant of
his ordnance company was to him what, in our day, an aide-de-camp is
to a marshal. A few years later, Cardinal de Richelieu had his body-
guard. Several princes allied to the royal house--Guise, Conde,
Nevers, and Vendome, etc.--had pages chosen among the sons of the best
families,--a last lingering custom of departed chivalry. The wealth of
the Duc d'Herouville, and the antiquity of his Norman race indicated
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: publicae lacere posset, Haeduos ceterosque amicos populi Romani
defenderet, se Haeduorum iniurias non neglecturum.
Ad haec Ariovistus respondit: ius esse belli ut qui vicissent iis
quos vicissent quem ad modum vellent imperarent. Item populum Romanum
victis non ad alterius praescriptum, sed ad suum arbitrium imperare
consuesse. Si ipse populo Romano non praescriberet quem ad modum suo iure
uteretur, non oportere se a populo Romano in suo iure impediri. Haeduos
sibi, quoniam belli fortunam temptassent et armis congressi ac superati
essent, stipendiarios esse factos. Magnam Caesarem iniuriam facere, qui
suo adventu vectigalia sibi deteriora faceret. Haeduis se obsides
redditurum non esse neque his neque eorum sociis iniuria bellum inlaturum,
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