| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Odyssey by Homer: table. If we face such numbers as this, you may have bitter
cause to rue your coming, and your revenge. See whether you
cannot think of some one who would be willing to come and help
us."
"Listen to me," replied Ulysses, "and think whether Minerva and
her father Jove may seem sufficient, or whether I am to try and
find some one else as well."
"Those whom you have named," answered Telemachus, "are a couple
of good allies, for though they dwell high up among the clouds
they have power over both gods and men."
"These two," continued Ulysses, "will not keep long out of the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Disputation of the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences by Dr. Martin Luther: not bestow greater graces; this is blasphemy against St. Peter
and against the pope.
78. We say, on the contrary, that even the present pope, and
any pope at all, has greater graces at his disposal; to wit,
the Gospel, powers, gifts of healing, etc., as it is written
in I. Corinthians xii.
79. To say that the cross, emblazoned with the papal arms,
which is set up [by the preachers of indulgences], is of equal
worth with the Cross of Christ, is blasphemy.
80. The bishops, curates and theologians who allow such talk
to be spread among the people, will have an account to render.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson: overhanging rock.
THE HUNTER'S FAMILY
THERE is quite a large race or class of people in America,
for whom we scarcely seem to have a parallel in England. Of
pure white blood, they are unknown or unrecognizable in
towns; inhabit the fringe of settlements and the deep, quiet
places of the country; rebellious to all labour, and pettily
thievish, like the English gipsies; rustically ignorant, but
with a touch of wood-lore and the dexterity of the savage.
Whence they came is a moot point. At the time of the war,
they poured north in crowds to escape the conscription; lived
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