| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Faith of Men by Jack London: his attention to his less intractable partner.
Kink Mitchell was persuadable, though a poor mathematician. He
wept dolefully, but was willing to sell a half-interest for two
hundred and fifty dollars or the whole claim for seven hundred and
fifty. Ans Handerson and Bidwell laboured to clear away his
erroneous ideas concerning fractions, but their labour was vain.
He spilled tears and regrets all over the bar and on their
shoulders, which tears, however, did not wash away his opinion,
that if one half was worth two hundred and fifty, two halves were
worth three times as much.
In the end,--and even Bidwell retained no more than hazy
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Margret Howth: A Story of To-day by Rebecca Harding Davis: would not begin his new life by an act of injustice, taking the
bread out of Margret's mouth. LITTLE MARGRET! He stopped
suddenly, looking down into a deep pool of water by the
road-side. What madness of weariness crossed his brain just then
I do not know. He shook it off. Was he mad? Life was worth
more to him than to other men, he thought; and perhaps he was
right. He went slowly through the cool dusk, looking across the
fields, up at the pale, frightened face of the moon hooded in
clouds: he did not dare to look, with all his iron nerve, at the
dark figure beyond him on the road. She was sitting there just
where he had left her: he knew she would be. When he came
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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: pontem in Arari faciendum curat atque ita exercitum traducit. Helvetii
repentino eius adventu commoti cum id quod ipsi diebus XX aegerrime
confecerant, ut flumen transirent, illum uno die fecisse intellegerent,
legatos ad eum mittunt; cuius legationis Divico princeps fuit, qui bello
Cassiano dux Helvetiorum fuerat. Is ita cum Caesare egit: si pacem
populus Romanus cum Helvetiis faceret, in eam partem ituros atque ibi
futuros Helvetios ubi eos Caesar constituisset atque esse voluisset; sin
bello persequi perseveraret, reminisceretur et veteris incommodi populi
Romani et pristinae virtutis Helvetiorum. Quod improviso unum pagum
adortus esset, cum ii qui flumen transissent suis auxilium ferre non
possent, ne ob eam rem aut suae magnopere virtuti tribueret aut ipsos
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