| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Troll Garden and Selected Stories by Willa Cather: "Thinks of it!" ejaculated Miss Broadwood. "Why, my dear,
what would any man think of having his house turned into an
hotel, habited by freaks who discharge his servants, borrow his
money, and insult his neighbors? This place is shunned like a
lazaretto!"
Well, then, why does he--why does he--" persisted Imogen.
"Bah!" interrupted Miss Broadwood impatiently, "why did he
in the first place? That's the question."
"Marry her, you mean?" said Imogen coloring.
"Exactly so," said Miss Broadwood sharply, as she snapped
the lid of her matchbox.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: perterritos Romanos discedere a se existimarent, eo magis quod pridie
superioribus locis occupatis proelium non commisissent, sive eo quod re
frumentaria intercludi posse confiderent, commutato consilio atque itinere
converso nostros a novissimo agmine insequi ac lacessere coeperunt.
Postquam id animum advertit, copias suas Caesar in proximum collem
subduxit equitatumque, qui sustineret hostium petum, misit. Ipse interim
in colle medio triplicem aciem instruxit legionum quattuor veteranarum; in
summo iugo duas legiones quas in Gallia citeriore proxime conscripserat et
omnia auxilia conlocavit, ita ut supra se totum montem hominibus
compleret; impedimenta sarcinasque in unum locum conterri et eum ab iis
qui in superiore acie constiterant muniri iussit. Helvetii cum omnibus
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Door in the Wall, et. al. by H. G. Wells: after a time the rising sun ceased to strike along the gorge, the
voices of the singing birds died away, and the air grew cold and
dark about him. But the distant valley with its houses was all the
brighter for that. He came presently to talus, and among the rocks
he noted--for he was an observant man--an unfamiliar fern that
seemed to clutch out of the crevices with intense green hands. He
picked a frond or so and gnawed its stalk, and found it helpful.
About midday he came at last out of the throat of the gorge
into the plain and the sunlight. He was stiff and weary; he sat
down in the shadow of a rock, filled up his flask with water from
a spring and drank it down, and remained for a time, resting before
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