| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from 1492 by Mary Johntson: teachers and scholars Luis Torres and Juan Lepe. We
did gain knowledge, but as yet everything was imperfect,
without fine shading, and subject to all miscomprehension.
But like the rest of us, the Admiral guessed in
accordance with his wishes and his previous belief.
All these islands lay flat or almost flat upon the sea. All
showed ivory beach, vivid wood, surrounding water, transparent
and heavenly blue, inhabited by magically colored
fish. When we dropped anchor, took boat and landed, it
was to find the same astonished folk, naked, harmless, holding
us for gods, bringing all they had, eager for our toys
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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: Q. Velanius eum T. Silio in Venetos.
Huius est civitatis longe amplissima auctoritas omnis orae maritimae
regionum earum, quod et naves habent Veneti plurimas, quibus in Britanniam
navigare consuerunt, et scientia atque usu rerum nauticarum ceteros
antecedunt et in magno impetu maris atque aperto paucis portibus
interiectis, quos tenent ipsi, omnes fere qui eo mari uti consuerunt
habent vectigales. Ab his fit initium retinendi Silii atque Velanii, quod
per eos suos se obsides, quos Crasso dedissent, recuperaturos
existimabant. Horum auctoritate finitimi adducti, ut sunt Gallorum subita
et repentina consilia, eadem de causa Trebium Terrasidiumque retinent et
celeriter missis legatis per suos principes inter se coniurant nihil nisi
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates: mile further on.
Suddenly she caught at my arm. Behind us came from a distance a
faint, drowsy hum. Even as we listened, it grew louder.
The next second we were running down the straight white road,
hand in hand and hell for leather.
She ran nobly, did the little girl. But all the time the hum was
getting more and more distinct.
I wondered if the village would ever come. It seemed as if
someone had moved it since the morning.
About the first house was the old Lamb Inn, with its large stable
yard. There stood a lonely brougham, horseless with upturned
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