| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: inciperet, ad exercitum venit. Dat negotium Senonibus reliquisque Gallis
qui finitimi Belgis erant uti ea quae apud eos gerantur cognoscant seque
de his rebus certiorem faciant. Hi constanter omnes nuntiaverunt manus
cogi, exercitum in unum locum conduci. Tum vero dubitandum non
existimavit quin ad eos proficisceretur. Re frumentaria provisa castra
movet diebusque circiter XV ad fines Belgarum pervenit.
Eo cum de improviso celeriusque omnium opinione venisset, Remi, qui
proximi Galliae ex Belgis sunt, ad eum legatos Iccium et Andebrogium,
primos civitatis, miserunt, qui dicerent se suaque omnia in fidem atque
potestatem populi Romani permittere, neque se cum reliquis Belgis
consensisse neque contra populum Romanum coniurasse, paratosque esse et
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde: LORD DARLINGTON. [Walking towards him.] I don't know!
LORD WINDERMERE. You must know. I demand an explanation. Don't
hold me, you fool. [To CECIL GRAHAM.]
LORD DARLINGTON. [Aside.] She is here after all!
LORD WINDERMERE. Speak, sir! Why is my wife's fan here? Answer
me! By God! I'll search your rooms, and if my wife's here, I'll -
[Moves.]
LORD DARLINGTON. You shall not search my rooms. You have no right
to do so. I forbid you!
LORD WINDERMERE. You scoundrel! I'll not leave your room till I
have searched every corner of it! What moves behind that curtain?
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Songs of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: And with a tide of song his silence broke.
XX - TO -
I KNEW thee strong and quiet like the hills;
I knew thee apt to pity, brave to endure,
In peace or war a Roman full equipt;
And just I knew thee, like the fabled kings
Who by the loud sea-shore gave judgment forth,
From dawn to eve, bearded and few of words.
What, what, was I to honour thee? A child;
A youth in ardour but a child in strength,
Who after virtue's golden chariot-wheels
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