| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Poems of Goethe, Bowring, Tr. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: For some one must be their possessor.
1827.*
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THREATENING SIGNS.
IF Venus in the evening sky
Is seen in radiant majesty,
If rod-like comets, red as blood,
Are 'mongst the constellations view'd,
Out springs the Ignoramus, yelling:
"The star's exactly o'er my dwelling!
What woeful prospect, ah, for me!
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: youth, or else senility.
[16] {enthumethenta}. Query, in reference to {enthumemata} above?
[17] Reading {andron}. For the vulg. {auton} see Schneid. ad loc., who
suggests {ton aston}.
[18] "Recognisable for the better."
[19] "They are not famous but infamous"; "the bad fare as their name
suggests" (i.e. badly).
[20] "Recognisable for the worse."
[21] Or, "what with private extortionsand public peculation."
[22] {ton idioton}, "laymen," I suppose, as opposed to "professional"
lawyers or politicians.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Magic of Oz by L. Frank Baum: waddled away and was now at the water's edge.
"Thank you, ever so much!" cried Trot, and the sailor called out:
"Much obliged!"
But the Lonesome Duck paid no attention. Without even looking in
their direction again, the gaudy fowl entered the water and swam
gracefully away.
16. The Glass Cat Finds the Black Bag
When the six monkeys were transformed by Kiki Aru into six giant
soldiers fifty feet tall, their heads came above the top of the
trees, which in this part of the forest were not so high as in some
other parts; and, although the trees were somewhat scattered, the
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