| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: inlatum defenderent, consensu eorum omnium pace facta hunc sibi domicilio
locum delegerant.
Ac primo adventu exercitus nostri crebras ex oppido excursiones
faciebant parvulisque proeliis cum nostris contendebant; postea vallo
pedum XII in circuitu %XV% milium crebrisque castellis circummuniti oppido
sese continebant. Ubi vineis actis aggere extructo turrim procul
constitui viderunt, primum inridere ex muro atque increpitare vocibus,
quod tanta machinatio a tanto spatio institueretur: quibusnam mallibus
aut quibus viribus praesertim homines tantulae staturae (nam plerumque
omnibus Gallis prae magnitudine corporum quorum brevitas nostra contemptui
est) tanti oneris turrim in muro sese conlocare confiderent?
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy: others. But I ask: a preference for how long?"
"For how long? For a long time, for a life-time sometimes."
"But that happens only in novels. In life, never. In life this
preference for one to the exclusion of all others lasts in rare
cases several years, oftener several months, or even weeks, days,
hours. . . ."
"Oh, sir. Oh, no, no, permit me," said all three of us at the
same time.
The clerk himself uttered a monosyllable of disapproval.
"Yes, I know," he said, shouting louder than all of us; "you are
talking of what is believed to exist, and I am talking of what
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Case of the Golden Bullet by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: house. You can find me there any time you need me. You'd better
take the key of the apartment and give it to the police."
The detective had no particular fondness for the task of sewing,
and he was glad to accept the valet's friendly offering. He was
rather astonished at the evident costliness of the garment the
young man handed him, and when he spoke of it, the valet could
not say enough in praise of the kindness of his late master. He
pulled out several other articles of clothing, which, like the
overcoat, had been given to him by Fellner. Then he packed up
a few necessities and announced himself as ready to start. He
insisted on carrying the torn coat, and Muller permitted it after
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