| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: circumsteterunt ac, si sese interfici nollent, arma ponere iusserunt. Cum
illi orbe facto sese defenderent, celeriter ad clamorem hominum circiter
milia VI convenerunt; Qua re nuntiata, Caesar omnem ex castris equitatum
suis auxilio misit. Interim nostri milites impetum hostium sustinuerunt
atque amplius horis IIII fortissime pugnaverunt et paucis vulneribus
acceptis complures ex iis occiderunt. Postea vero quam equitatus noster
in conspectum venit, hostes abiectis armis terga verterunt magnusque eorum
numerus est occisus.
Caesar postero die T. Labienum legatum cum iis legionibus quas ex
Britannia reduxerat in Morinos qui rebellionem fecerant misit. Qui cum
propter siccitates paludum quo se reciperent non haberent, quo perfugio
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates by Howard Pyle: lumpish face; but that was all.
As was said, the face upon which he looked was strangely,
marvelously changed from what it had been when he had last seen
it nine years before, and, though it was still the face of Levi
West, it was a very different Levi West than the shiftless
ne'er-do-well who had run away to sea in the Brazilian brig that
long time ago. That Levi West had been a rough, careless,
happy-go-lucky fellow; thoughtless and selfish, but with nothing
essentially evil or sinister in his nature. The Levi West that
now sat in a rush-bottom chair at the other side of the fireplace
had that stamped upon his front that might be both evil and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne: calmness over all my spirits -
- Good God! how a man might lead such a creature as this round the
world with him! -
I had not yet seen her face - 'twas not material: for the drawing
was instantly set about, and long before we had got to the door of
the Remise, FANCY had finished the whole head, and pleased herself
as much with its fitting her goddess, as if she had dived into the
Tiber for it; - but thou art a seduced, and a seducing slut; and
albeit thou cheatest us seven times a day with thy pictures and
images, yet with so many charms dost thou do it, and thou deckest
out thy pictures in the shapes of so many angels of light, 'tis a
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