| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Turn of the Screw by Henry James: It wasn't a scene for a shudder; but oh--!" He quitted the fire
and dropped back into his chair.
"You'll receive the packet Thursday morning?" I inquired.
"Probably not till the second post."
"Well then; after dinner--"
"You'll all meet me here?" He looked us round again. "Isn't anybody going?"
It was almost the tone of hope.
"Everybody will stay!"
"_I_ will" --and "_I_ will!" cried the ladies whose departure
had been fixed. Mrs. Griffin, however, expressed the need
for a little more light. "Who was it she was in love with?"
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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: quaereret, sic reperiebat: nullum esse aditum ad eos mercatoribus; nihil
pati vini reliquarumque rerum ad luxuriam pertinentium inferri, quod his
rebus relanguescere animos eorum et remitti virtutem existimarent; esse
homines feros magnaeque virtutis; increpitare atque incusare reliquos
Belgas, qui se populo Romano dedidissent patriamque virtutem proiecissent;
confirmare sese neque legatos missuros neque ullam condicionem pacis
accepturos.
Cum per eorum fines triduum iter fecisset, inveniebat ex captivis
Sabim flumen a castris suis non amplius milibus passuum X abesse; trans id
flumen omnes Nervios consedisse adventumque ibi Romanorum expectare una
cum Atrebatibus et Viromanduis, finitimis suis (nam his utrisque
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Herland by Charlotte Gilman: It was lucky that we knew so little, really, and had no books to
refer to, else, I fancy we might all be there yet, teaching those
eager-minded women about the rest of the world.
As to geography, they had the tradition of the Great Sea,
beyond the mountains; and they could see for themselves the
endless thick-forested plains below them--that was all. But from
the few records of their ancient condition--not "before the
flood" with them, but before that mighty quake which had cut
them off so completely--they were aware that there were other
peoples and other countries.
In geology they were quite ignorant.
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