| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: quod tanta machinatio a tanto spatio institueretur: quibusnam mallibus
aut quibus viribus praesertim homines tantulae staturae (nam plerumque
omnibus Gallis prae magnitudine corporum quorum brevitas nostra contemptui
est) tanti oneris turrim in muro sese conlocare confiderent?
Ubi vero moveri et adpropinquare muris viderunt, nova atque inusitata
specie commoti legatos ad Caesarem de pace miserunt, qui ad hunc modum
locuti, non se existimare Romanos sine ope divina bellum gerere, qui
tantae altitudinis machinationes tanta celeritate promovere possent, se
suaque omnia eorum potestati permittere dixerunt. Unum petere ac
deprecari: si forte pro sua clementia ac mansuetudine, quam ipsi ab aliis
audirent, statuisset Atuatucos esse conservandos, ne se armis despoliaret.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Aeneid by Virgil: Hippolytus, as old records have said,
Was by his stepdam sought to share her bed;
But, when no female arts his mind could move,
She turn'd to furious hate her impious love.
Torn by wild horses on the sandy shore,
Another's crimes th' unhappy hunter bore,
Glutting his father's eyes with guiltless gore.
But chaste Diana, who his death deplor'd,
With Aesculapian herbs his life restor'd.
Then Jove, who saw from high, with just disdain,
The dead inspir'd with vital breath again,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton: Ann Eliza's knees grew weak. "Mrs. Hochmuller gone? But
where has she gone? She must be somewhere round here. Can't you
tell me?"
"Sure an' I can't," said the woman. "She wint away before
iver we come."
"Dalia Geoghegan, will ye bring the choild in out av the
cowld?" cried an irate voice from within.
"Please wait--oh, please wait," Ann Eliza insisted. "You see
I must find Mrs. Hochmuller."
"Why don't ye go and look for her thin?" the woman returned,
slamming the door in her face.
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