| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: apud omnes Belgas amplificaturum, quorum auxiliis atque opibus, si qua
bella inciderint, sustentare consuerint.
Caesar honoris Diviciaci atque Haeduorum causa sese eos in fidem
recepturum et conservaturum dixit, et quod erat civitas magna inter Belgas
auctoritate atque hominum multitudine praestabat, DC obsides poposcit.
His traditis omnibusque armis ex oppido conlatis, ab eo loco in fines
Ambianorum pervenit; qui se suaque omnia sine mora dediderunt. Eorum
fines Nervii attingebant. Quorum de natura moribusque Caesar cum
quaereret, sic reperiebat: nullum esse aditum ad eos mercatoribus; nihil
pati vini reliquarumque rerum ad luxuriam pertinentium inferri, quod his
rebus relanguescere animos eorum et remitti virtutem existimarent; esse
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Cousin Betty by Honore de Balzac: all the grace of infancy, in the mad joy of conception, with the
fragrant beauty of a flower, and the aromatic juices of a fruit
enjoyed in anticipation.
The man who can sketch his purpose beforehand in words is regarded as
a wonder, and every artist and writer possesses that faculty. But
gestation, fruition, the laborious rearing of the offspring, putting
it to bed every night full fed with milk, embracing it anew every
morning with the inexhaustible affection of a mother's heart, licking
it clean, dressing it a hundred times in the richest garb only to be
instantly destroyed; then never to be cast down at the convulsions of
this headlong life till the living masterpiece is perfected which in
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Christ in Flanders by Honore de Balzac: sent out glowing sparks of light. The shafts began to tremble, the
capitals were gently shaken. A light shudder as of delight ran through
the building, the stones were loosened in their setting, the wall-
spaces swayed with graceful caution. Here and there a ponderous pier
moved as solemnly as a dowager when she condescends to complete a
quadrille at the close of a ball. A few slender and graceful columns,
their heads adorned with wreaths of trefoil, began to laugh and dance
here and there. Some of the pointed arches dashed at the tall lancet
windows, who, like ladies of the Middle Ages, wore the armorial
bearings of their houses emblazoned on their golden robes. The dance
of the mitred arcades with the slender windows became like a fray at a
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