| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wife, et al by Anton Chekhov: are my father, you know, my only friend! You are clever,
educated; you have lived so long; you have been a teacher! Tell
me, what am I to do?"
"Upon my word, Katya, I don't know. . . ."
I am utterly at a loss and confused, touched by her sobs, and
hardly able to stand.
"Let us have lunch, Katya," I say, with a forced smile. "Give
over crying."
And at once I add in a sinking voice:
"I shall soon be gone, Katya. . . ."
"Only one word, only one word!" she weeps, stretching out her
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: Atuatuci, de quibus supra diximus, cum omnibus copiis auxilio Nerviis
venirent, hac pugna nuntiata ex itinere domum reverterunt; cunctis oppidis
castellisque desertis sua omnia in unum oppidum egregie natura munitum
contulerunt. Quod cum ex omnibus in circuitu partibus altissimas rupes
deiectusque haberet, una ex parte leniter acclivis aditus in latitudinem
non amplius pedum CC relinquebatur; quem locum duplici altissimo muro
munierant; tum magni ponderis saxa et praeacutas trabes in muro
conlocabant. Ipsi erant ex Cimbris Teutonisque prognati, qui, cum iter in
provinciam nostram atque Italiam; facerent, iis impedimentis quae secum
agere ac portare non poterant citra flumen Rhenum depositis custodiae [ex
suis] ac praesidio VI milia hominum una reliquerant. Hi post eorum obitum
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Jolly Corner by Henry James: dimly gathering. Simplified like the death-mask of a handsome
face, it perhaps produced for her just then an effect akin to the
stir of an expression in the "set" commemorative plaster. Yet
whatever her impression may have been she produced instead a vague
platitude. "Well, if it were only furnished and lived in - !"
She appeared to imply that in case of its being still furnished he
might have been a little less opposed to the idea of a return. But
she passed straight into the vestibule, as if to leave her words
behind her, and the next moment he had opened the house-door and
was standing with her on the steps. He closed the door and, while
he re-pocketed his key, looking up and down, they took in the
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