| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Desert Gold by Zane Grey: ears and pointed his nose over the top of the fence. He whistled.
Other horses looked in the same direction, and their ears went up,
and they, too, whistled. Gale knew that other horses or men, very
likely both, were approaching. But the Mexicans did not hear the
alarm, or show any interest if they did. These mescal-drinking
raiders were not scouts. It was notorious how easily they could
be surprised or ambushed. Mostly they were ignorant, thick-skulled
peons. They were wonderful horsemen, and could go long without
food or water; but they had not other accomplishments or attributes
calculated to help them in desert warfare. They had poor sight,
poor hearing, poor judgment, and when excited they resembled
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Master and Man by Leo Tolstoy: Nicholas's Day. There was a fete in the parish and the
innkeeper, Vasili Andreevich Brekhunov, a Second Guild
merchant, being a church elder had to go to church, and had
also to entertain his relatives and friends at home.
But when the last of them had gone he at once began to prepare
to drive over to see a neighbouring proprietor about a grove
which he had been bargaining over for a long time. He was now
in a hurry to start, lest buyers from the town might forestall
him in making a profitable purchase.
The youthful landowner was asking ten thousand rubles for the
grove simply because Vasili Andreevich was offering seven
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Agesilaus by Xenophon: And next in token of an aptitude for kingship seen in Agesilaus,
before even he entered upon office, I note these signs. On the death
of Agis, king of Lacedaemon, there were rival claimants to the throne.
Leotychides claimed the succession as being the son of Agis, and
Agesilaus as the son of Archidamus. But the verdict of Lacedaemon
favoured Agesilaus as being in point of family and virtue
unimpeachable,[3] and so they set him on the throne. And yet, in this
princeliest of cities so to be selected by the noblest citizens as
worthy of highest privilege, argues, methinks conclusively, an
excellence forerunning exercise of rule.[4]
[3] For this matter see "Hell." III. iii. 1-6; V. iv. 13; Plut.
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