| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy: to prevent topers in one compartment being put to the blush
by the recognitions of those in the next. On the inside
of the counter two barmaids leant over the white-handled
beer-engines, and the row of little silvered taps inside,
dripping into a pewter trough.
Feeling tired, and having nothing more to do till the train left,
Jude sat down on one of the sofas. At the back of the barmaids rose
bevel-edged mirrors, with glass shelves running along their front,
on which stood precious liquids that Jude did not know the name of,
in bottles of topaz, sapphire, ruby and amethyst. The moment was
enlivened by the entrance of some customers into the next compartment,
Jude the Obscure |
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: intellecturum quid invicti Germani, exercitatissimi in armis, qui inter
annos XIIII tectum non subissent, virtute possent.
Haec eodem tempore Caesari mandata referebantur et legati ab Haeduis
et a Treveris veniebant: Haedui questum quod Harudes, qui nuper in
Galliam transportati essent, fines eorum popularentur: sese ne obsidibus
quidem datis pacem Ariovisti redimere potuisse; Treveri autem, pagos
centum Sueborum ad ripas Rheni consedisse, qui Rhemum transire conarentur;
his praeesse Nasuam et Cimberium fratres. Quibus rebus Caesar vehementer
commotus maturandum sibi existimavit, ne, si nova manus Sueborum cum
veteribus copiis Ariovisti sese coniunxisset, minus facile resisti posset.
Itaque re frumentaria quam celerrime potuit comparata magnis itineribus
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: highway, a British house was again pierced by numerous bullets, and
these sudden sounds of war scattered consternation through the
town.
Two British subjects, Hetherington-Carruthers, a solicitor, and
Maben, a land-surveyor - the first being in particular a man well
versed in the native mind and language - hastened at once to their
consul; assured him the Mataafas would be roused to fury by this
onslaught in the neutral zone, that the German quarter would be
certainly attacked, and the rest of the town and white inhabitants
exposed to a peril very difficult of estimation; and prevailed upon
him to intrust them with a mission to the king. By the time they
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