| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: accessisset seque id sine periculo facere posse existimaret. Non respuit
condicionem Caesar iamque eum ad sanitatem reverti arbitrabatur, cum id
quod antea petenti denegasset ultro polliceretur, magnamque in spem
veniebat pro suis tantis populique Romani in eum beneficiis cognitis suis
postulatis fore uti pertinacia desisteret. Dies conloquio dictus est ex
eo die quintus. Interim saepe cum legati ultro citroque inter eos
mitterentur, Ariovistus postulavit ne quem peditem ad conloquium Caesar
adduceret: vereri se ne per insidias ab eo circumveniretur; uterque cum
equitatu veniret: alia ratione sese non esse venturum. Caesar, quod
neque conloquium interposita causa tolli volebat neque salutem suam
Gallorum equitatui committere audebat, commodissimum esse statuit omnibus
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells: the Martians have actually succeeded in effecting a landing
on the planet Venus. Seven months ago now, Venus and
Mars were in alignment with the sun; that is to say, Mars
was in opposition from the point of view of an observer on
Venus. Subsequently a peculiar luminous and sinuous mark-
ing appeared on the unillumined half of the inner planet,
and almost simultaneously a faint dark mark of a similar
sinuous character was detected upon a photograph of the
Martian disk. One needs to see the drawings of these ap-
pearances in order to appreciate fully their remarkable
resemblance in character.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: That want their leader, scatter up and down
And care not who they sting in his revenge.
Myself have calm'd their spleenful mutiny
Until they hear the order of his death.
KING.
That he is dead, good Warwick, 't is too true;
But how he died God knows, not Henry.
Enter his chamber, view his breathless corpse,
And comment then upon his sudden death.
WARWICK.
That shall I do, my liege.--Stay, Salisbury,
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