| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Out of Time's Abyss by Edgar Rice Burroughs: encounter had ceased even to be a topic of conversation.
For two days they continued upon their perilous way. Already the
cliffs loomed high and forbidding close ahead without sign of
break to encourage hope that somewhere they might be scaled.
Late in the afternoon the party crossed a small stream of warm
water upon the sluggishly moving surface of which floated
countless millions of tiny green eggs surrounded by a light scum
of the same color, though of a darker shade. Their past
experience of Caspak had taught them that they might expect to
come upon a stagnant pool of warm water if they followed the
stream to its source; but there they were almost certain to find
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Critias by Plato: might be shown to you, I too ask the same or greater forbearance for what I
am about to say. And although I very well know that my request may appear
to be somewhat ambitious and discourteous, I must make it nevertheless.
For will any man of sense deny that you have spoken well? I can only
attempt to show that I ought to have more indulgence than you, because my
theme is more difficult; and I shall argue that to seem to speak well of
the gods to men is far easier than to speak well of men to men: for the
inexperience and utter ignorance of his hearers about any subject is a
great assistance to him who has to speak of it, and we know how ignorant we
are concerning the gods. But I should like to make my meaning clearer, if
you will follow me. All that is said by any of us can only be imitation
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring by George Bernard Shaw: the nightmare terror of Mimmy when Wotan appears at the mouth of
his cave in the scene of the three riddles. Thus not only are
there several Wotan themes, but each varies in its inflexions and
shades of tone color according to its dramatic circumstances. So,
too, the merry ham tune of the young Siegfried changes its
measure, loads itself with massive harmonies, and becomes an
exordium of the most imposing splendor when it heralds his entry
as full-fledged hero in the prologue to Night Falls On The Gods.
Even Mimmy has his two or three themes: the weird one already
described; the little one in triple measure imitating the tap of
his hammer, and fiercely mocked in the savage laugh of Alberic at
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