| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Odyssey by Homer: all ages have made graver mistakes.
On this same day (the sixth) the wooers in Ithaca learned
that Telemachus had really set out to I cruise after his
father.' They sent some of their number to lie in ambush
for him, in a certain strait which he was likely to pass on
his return to Ithaca. Penelope also heard of her son's
departure, but was consoled by a dream.
DAY 7 (Book v).
The seventh day finds us again in Olympus. Athene again
urges the release of Odysseus; and Hermes is sent to bid
Calypso let the hero go. Zeus prophecies that after twenty
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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: dicunt, qua die ad ripam Rhodani omnes conveniant. Is dies erat a. d. V.
Kal. Apr. L. Pisone, A. Gabinio consulibus.
Caesari cum id nuntiatum esset, eos per provincia nostram iter facere
conari, maturat ab urbe proficisci et quam maximis potest itineribus in
Galliam ulteriorem contendit et ad Genavam pervenit. Provinciae toti quam
maximum potest militum numerum imperat (erat omnino in Gallia ulteriore
legio una), pontem, qui erat ad Genavam, iubet rescindi. Ubi de eius
aventu Helvetii certiores facti sunt, legatos ad eum mittunt nobilissimos
civitatis, cuius legationis Nammeius et Verucloetius principem locum
obtinebant, qui dicerent sibi esse in animo sine ullo maleficio iter per
provinciam facere, propterea quod aliud iter haberent nullum: rogare ut
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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: and respectable in their bearing that after a moment's hesitation
Nunez stood forward as conspicuously as possible upon his rock, and
gave vent to a mighty shout that echoed round the valley.
The three men stopped, and moved their heads as though they
were looking about them. They turned their faces this way and
that, and Nunez gesticulated with freedom. But they did not appear
to see him for all his gestures, and after a time, directing
themselves towards the mountains far away to the right, they
shouted as if in answer. Nunez bawled again, and then once more,
and as he gestured ineffectually the word "blind" came up to the
top of his thoughts. "The fools must be blind," he said.
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