| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs: and in the moonlight beyond she saw the heads and
shoulders of two men.
As Clayton rounded the corner of the cabin to behold the
animal disappearing within, it was also to see the ape-man
seize the long tail in both hands, and, bracing himself with
his feet against the side of the cabin, throw all his mighty
strength into the effort to draw the beast out of the interior.
Clayton was quick to lend a hand, but the ape-man jabbered
to him in a commanding and peremptory tone something
which Clayton knew to be orders, though he could not
understand them.
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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: posse, statuit expectandam classem. Quae ubi convenit ac primum ab
hostibus visa est, circiter CCXX naves eorum paratissimae atque omni
genere armorum ornatissimae profectae ex portu nostris adversae
constiterunt; neque satis Bruto, qui classi praeerat, vel tribunis militum
centurionibusque, quibus singulae naves erant attributae, constabat quid
agerent aut quam rationem pugnae insisterent. Rostro enim noceri non
posse cognoverant; turribus autem excitatis tamen has altitudo puppium ex
barbaris navibus superabat, ut neque ex inferiore loco satis commode tela
adigi possent et missa a Gallis gravius acciderent. Una erat magno usui
res praeparata a nostris, falces praeacutae insertae adfixaeque longuriis,
non absimili forma muralium falcium. His cum funes qui antemnas ad malos
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Little Britain by Washington Irving: perceived the infection had taken hold; and that my neighbors,
after condemning, were beginning to follow their example. I
overheard my landlady importuning her husband to let their
daughters have one quarter at French and music, and that they
might take a few lessons in quadrille. I even saw, in the course
of a few Sundays, no less than five French bonnets, precisely
like those of the Miss Lambs, parading about Little Britain.
I still had my hopes that all this folly would gradually die
away; that the Lambs might move out of the neighborhood;
might die, or might run away with attorneys' apprentices; and
that quiet and simplicity might be again restored to the
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