| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Personal Record by Joseph Conrad: near me in the most distant parts of the earth.
As to Mr. Nicholas B., sub-lieutenant of 1808, lieutenant of 1813
in the French army, and for a short time Officier d'Ordonnance of
Marshal Marmont; afterward captain in the 2d Regiment of Mounted
Rifles in the Polish army--such as it existed up to 1830 in the
reduced kingdom established by the Congress of Vienna--I must say
that from all that more distant past, known to me traditionally
and a little de visu, and called out by the words of the man just
gone away, he remains the most incomplete figure. It is obvious
that I must have seen him in '64, for it is certain that he would
not have missed the opportunity of seeing my mother for what he
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Smalcald Articles by Dr. Martin Luther: sects and heretics, and that such a head were chosen by men,
and that it were placed within the choice and power of men to
change or remove this head, just as the Council of Constance
adopted nearly this course with reference to the Popes,
deposing three and electing a fourth; supposing, I say, that
the Pope and See at Rome would yield and accept this (which,
nevertheless, is impossible; for thus he would have to suffer
his entire realm and estate to be overthrown and destroyed,
with all his rights and books, a thing which, to speak in few
words, he cannot do), nevertheless, even in this way
Christianity would not be helped, but many more sects would
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: always added that they must fight to the last man, and
blow up the town rather than yield!
These false statements would have done more harm had
it been possible; but the garrison and the population of
Irkutsk were too patriotic to let themselves be moved. Of
all the soldiers and citizens shut up in this town, isolated at
the extremity of the Asiatic world, not one dreamed of even
speaking of a capitulation. The contempt of the Russians
for these barbarians was boundless.
No one suspected the odious part played by Ivan Ogareff;
no one guessed that the pretended courier of the Czar was a
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