| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: milia hominum XXIIII ad eum venissent, quibus locus ac sedes pararentur.
Futurum esse paucis annis uti omnes ex Galliae finibus pellerentur atque
omnes Germani Rhenum transirent; neque enim conferendum esse Gallicum cum
Germanorum agro neque hanc consuetudinem victus cum illa comparandam.
Ariovistum autem, ut semel Gallorum copias proelio vicerit, quod proelium
factum sit ad Magetobrigam, superbe et crudeliter imperare, obsides
nobilissimi cuiusque liberos poscere et in eos omnia exempla cruciatusque
edere, si qua res non ad nutum aut ad voluntatem eius facta sit. Hominem
esse barbarum, iracundum, temerarium: non posse eius imperia, diutius
sustineri. Nisi quid in Caesare populoque Romano sit auxilii, omnibus
Gallis idem esse faciendum quod Helvetii fecerint, ut domo emigrent, aliud
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft: sculptor with scientific minuteness; and studied with frantic
intensity the bas-relief on which the youth had found himself
working, chilled and clad only in his night clothes, when waking
had stolen bewilderingly over him. My uncle blamed his old age,
Wilcox afterwards said, for his slowness in recognizing both hieroglyphics
and pictorial design. Many of his questions seemed highly out
of place to his visitor, especially those which tried to connect
the latter with strange cults or societies; and Wilcox could not
understand the repeated promises of silence which he was offered
in exchange for an admission of membership in some widespread
mystical or paganly religious body. When Professor Angell became
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mayflower Compact: Acts, Constitutions, and Offices, from time to time,
as shall be thought most meete and convenient for the
Generall Good of the Colonie; unto which we promise
all due Submission and Obedience.
In Witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names
at Cape Cod the eleventh of November, in the Raigne of our
Sovereigne Lord, King James of England, France, and Ireland,
the eighteenth, and of Scotland, the fiftie-fourth,
Anno. Domini, 1620.
Mr. John Carver Mr. Stephen Hopkins
Mr. William Bradford Digery Priest
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