| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dark Lady of the Sonnets by George Bernard Shaw: beneath the feet of the horses, if indeed there be any horses then,
and men be still riding instead of flying. Now it may be that by then
your works will be dust also.
SHAKESPEAR. They will stand, madam: fear nor for that.
ELIZABETH. It may prove so. But of this I am certain (for I know my
countrymen) that until every other country in the Christian world,
even to barbarian Muscovy and the hamlets of the boorish Germans, have
its playhouse at the public charge, England will never adventure. And
she will adventure then only because it is her desire to be ever in
the fashion, and to do humbly and dutifully whatso she seeth everybody
else doing. In the meantime you must content yourself as best you can
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Chronicles of the Canongate by Walter Scott: walls by the side of which they grew. This access led to the
front of the house, which was formed by two gable ends, notched,
and having their windows adorned with heavy architectural
ornaments. They joined each other at right angles; and a half
circular tower, which contained the entrance and the staircase,
occupied the point of junction, and rounded the acute angle. One
of other two sides of the little court, in which there was just
sufficient room to turn a carriage, was occupied by some low
buildings answering the purpose of offices; the other, by a
parapet surrounded by a highly-ornamented iron railing, twined
round with honeysuckle and other parasitical shrubs, which
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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: plurimum domi atque in reliqua Gallia, ille minimum propter adulescentiam
posset, per se crevisset; quibus opibus ac nervis non solum ad minuendam
gratiam, sed paene ad perniciem suam uteretur. Sese tamen et amore
fraterno et existimatione vulgi commoveri. Quod si quid ei a Caesare
gravius accidisset, cum ipse eum locum amicitiae apud eum teneret, neminem
existimaturum non sua voluntate factum; qua ex re futurum uti totius
Galliae animi a se averterentur. Haec cum pluribus verbis flens a Caesare
peteret, Caesar eius dextram prendit; consolatus rogat finem orandi
faciat; tanti eius apud se gratiam esse ostendit uti et rei publicae
iniuriam et suum dolorem eius voluntati ac precibus condonet. Dumnorigem
ad se vocat, fratrem adhibet; quae in eo reprehendat ostendit; quae ipse
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