| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: Some noise or stir puts into your fancy as you sleep a whole long
dream to account for it; and yet that dream, which seems to you to
be hours long, has not taken up a second of time; for the very
same noise which begins the dream, wakes you at the end of it:
and so it was with me. I dreamed that some English people had
come into the hotel where I was, and were sleeping in the room
underneath me; and that they had quarrelled and fought, and broke
their bed down with a tremendous crash, and that I must get up,
and stop the fight; and at that moment I woke and heard coming up
the valley from the north such a roar as I never heard before or
since; as if a hundred railway trains were rolling underground;
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Flame and Shadow by Sara Teasdale: That the great trees made.
One thought in my mind went over and over
While the darkness shook and the leaves were thinned --
I thought it was you who had come to find me,
You were the wind.
Songs For Myself
XII
The Tree
Oh to be free of myself,
With nothing left to remember,
To have my heart as bare
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: murum in altitudinem pedum sedecim fossamque perducit. Eo opere perfecto
praesidia disponit, castella communit, quo facilius, si se invito transire
conentur, prohibere possit. Ubi ea dies quam constituerat cum legatis
venit et legati ad eum reverterunt, negat se more et exemplo populi Romani
posse iter ulli per provinciam dare et, si vim lacere conentur,
prohibiturum ostendit. Helvetii ea spe deiecti navibus iunctis ratibusque
compluribus factis, alii vadis Rhodani, qua minima altitudo fluminis erat,
non numquam interdiu, saepius noctu si perrumpere possent conati, operis
munitione et militum concursu et telis repulsi, hoc conatu destiterunt.
Relinquebatur una per Sequanos via, qua Sequanis invitis propter
angustias ire non poterant. His cum sua sponte persuadere non possent,
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