| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: instant the three were opposite the projecting rock which
protected the tarantass at the turning of the road.
The clump of pines struck by the lightning was still
burning. There was no one to be seen. However, Michael
was not mistaken. Suddenly a dreadful growling was
heard, and then another report.
"A bear;" cried Michael, who could not mistake the
growling. "Nadia; Nadia!" And drawing his cutlass
from his belt, Michael bounded round the buttress behind
which the young girl had promised to wait.
The pines, completely enveloped in flames, threw a wild
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Essays & Lectures by Oscar Wilde: and metaphors to which modern science has given the name of a
disease of language. In answer to the impious rationalism of
Pentheus - a sort of modern Philistine - Teiresias, who may be
termed the Max Muller of the Theban cycle, points out that the
story of Dionysus being inclosed in Zeus' thigh really arose from
the linguistic confusion between [Greek text which cannot be
reproduced] and [Greek text which cannot be reproduced].
On the whole, however - for I have quoted these two instances only
to show the unscientific character of early philology - we may say
that this important instrument in recreating the history of the
past was not really used by the ancients as a means of historical
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain: at the show the other two nights. I stood by the duke
at the door, and I see that every man that went in had
his pockets bulging, or something muffled up under
his coat -- and I see it warn't no perfumery, neither,
not by a long sight. I smelt sickly eggs by the barrel,
and rotten cabbages, and such things; and if I know
the signs of a dead cat being around, and I bet I do,
there was sixty-four of them went in. I shoved in
there for a minute, but it was too various for me; I
couldn't stand it. Well, when the place couldn't hold
no more people the duke he give a fellow a quarter
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