| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Complete Angler by Izaak Walton: art, and an art worth the learning, I shall beg that I may attend you a day
or two a-fishing, and that I may become your scholar, and be instructed
in the art itself which you so much magnify.
Piscator. O, Sir, doubt not but that Angling is an art; is it not an art to
deceive a Trout with an artificial Fly ? a Trout ! that is more sharp-
sighted than any Hawk you have named, and more watchful and
timorous than your high-mettled Merlin is bold ? and yet, I doubt not to
catch a brace or two to-morrow, for a friend's breakfast: doubt not
therefore, Sir, but that angling is an art, and an worth your learning. The
question is rather, whether you be capable of learning it? angling is
somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so: I mean, with inclinations
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from 1492 by Mary Johntson: the stream, in the groves, a quarter-league away, stood the
hundred huts of Guarico. We built a tower and storehouse
and wall of wood and we digged around all some kind
of moat, and mounted three lombards. All that we could
lift from the Santa Maria and what the _Nina_ could spare
us of arms, conveniences and food went into our arsenal
and storehouse. We had a bubbling spring within the enclosure.
When all was done the tower of La Navidad,
though an infant beside towers of Europe, might suffice
for the first here of its brood. It was done in a week from
that shipwreck.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: ring set with a single opal.
The Outlaw of Torn raised the little circlet to his
lips, and then slipped it upon the third finger of his
left hand.
CHAPTER XII
NORMAN of Torn did not return to the castle of
Leicester "in a few days," nor for many months. For
news came to him that Bertrade de Montfort had
been posted off to France in charge of her mother.
From now on the forces of Torn were employed in
repeated attacks on royalist barons, encroaching ever
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