| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Hellenica by Xenophon: called out the ban against Elis, and the invading host of Agis was
this time swelled by the rest of the allies, including the Athenians;
the Boeotians and Corinthians alone excepted. The Spartan king now
entered through Aulon,[20] and the men of Lepreum[21] at once revolted
from the Eleians and gave in their adhesion to the Spartan, and
simultaneously with these the Macistians and their next-door
neighbours the Epitalians. As he crossed the river further adhesions
followed, on the part of the Letrinians, the Amphidolians, and the
Marganians.
[19] Al. "on the coming round of the next year." See Jowett (note to
Thuc. i. 31), vol. ii. p. 33.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from 1984 by George Orwell: seemed to think it just as natural that 'they' should want to rob you of
your pleasures as that you should want to avoid being caught. She hated
the Party, and said so in the crudest words, but she made no general
criticism of it. Except where it touched upon her own life she had no
interest in Party doctrine. He noticed that she never used Newspeak words
except the ones that had passed into everyday use. She had never heard of
the Brotherhood, and refused to believe in its existence. Any kind of
organized revolt against the Party, which was bound to be a failure,
struck her as stupid. The clever thing was to break the rules and stay
alive all the same. He wondered vaguely how many others like her there
might be in the younger generation people who had grown up in the world of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Four Arthurian Romances by Chretien DeTroyes: her at the top of the steps. And the damsel came happy in the
message she had to bear. When she had climbed the steps and
reached her side, she said: "Lady, I never saw so courteous g
knight, for he is more than ready to obey every command you send
to him, for, if the truth be known, he accepts good and evil with
the same countenance. "Indeed," says the Queen, "that may well
be so." Then she returns to the balcony to watch the knights.
And Lancelot without delay seizes his shield by the leather
straps, for he is kindled and consumed by the desire to show his
prowess. Guiding his horse's head, he lets him run between two
lines. All those mistaken and deluded men, who have spent a
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