| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: secundum naturam fluminis procumberent, iis item contraria duo ad eundem
modum iuncta intervallo pedum quadragenum ab inferiore parte contra vim
atque impetu fluminis conversa statuebat. Haec utraque insuper
bipedalibus trabibus immissis, quantum eorum tignorum iunctura distabat,
binis utrimque fibulis ab extrema parte distinebantur; quibus disclusis
atque in contrariam partem revinctis, tanta erat operis firmitudo atque ea
rerum natura ut, quo maior vis aquae se incitavisset, hoc artius inligata
tenerentur. Haec derecta materia iniecta contexebantur ac longuriis
cratibusque consternebantur; ac nihilo setius sublicae et ad inferiorem
partem fluminis oblique agebantur, quae pro ariete subiectae et cum omni
opere coniunctae vim fluminis exciperent, et aliae item supra pontem
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells: Already he had thought out and judged Amanda. The very charm of
her, the sweetness, the nearness and magic of her, was making him
more grimly resolute to break away. All the elaborate process of
thinking her over had gone on behind the mask of his silences while
she had been preoccupied with her housing and establishment in
London; it was with a sense of extraordinary injustice, of having
had a march stolen upon her, of being unfairly trapped, that Amanda
found herself faced by foregone conclusions. He was ready now even
with the details of his project. She should go on with her life in
London exactly as she had planned it. He would take fifteen hundred
a year for himself and all the rest she might spend without check or
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald: Some one started to ask me questions, but I broke away and going up-stairs
looked hastily through the unlocked parts of his desk--he'd never told me
definitely that his parents were dead. But there was nothing--only the
picture of Dan Cody, a token of forgotten violence, staring down from
the wall.
Next morning I sent the butler to New York with a letter to Wolfshiem,
which asked for information and urged him to come out on the next
train. That request seemed superfluous when I wrote it. I was sure he'd
start when he saw the newspapers, just as I was sure there'd be a wire
from Daisy before noon--but neither a wire nor Mr. Wolfshiem arrived; no
one arrived except more police and photographers and newspaper men.
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