| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: 'Make ready!' I answered.
Then she rose and soon was busy with the ropes. At length all was
prepared and the moment of death was at hand.
'You must aid me, Otomie,' I said; 'I cannot walk by myself.'
She came and lifted me with her strong and tender arms, till I
stood upon a stool beneath the window bars. There she placed the
rope about my throat, then taking her stand by me she fitted the
second rope upon her own. Now we kissed in solemn silence, for
there was nothing more to say. Yet Otomie said something, asking:
'Of whom do you think in this moment, husband? Of me and of my
dead child, or of that lady who lives far across the sea? Nay, I
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen: laboratory, and he felt again the heated air beating in gusts
about his face, saw the shimmer rising from the turf, and heard
the myriad murmur of the summer.
"I hope the smell doesn't annoy you, Clarke; there's
nothing unwholesome about it. It may make you a bit sleepy,
that's all."
Clarke heard the words quite distinctly, and knew that
Raymond was speaking to him, but for the life of him he could
not rouse himself from his lethargy. He could only think of the
lonely walk he had taken fifteen years ago; it was his last look
at the fields and woods he had known since he was a child, and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Menexenus by Plato: heart and came to misfortune, their very enemies and opponents winning more
renown for valour and temperance than the friends of others. Many also
fell in naval engagements at the Hellespont, after having in one day taken
all the ships of the enemy, and defeated them in other naval engagements.
And what I call the terrible and desperate nature of the war, is that the
other Hellenes, in their extreme animosity towards the city, should have
entered into negotiations with their bitterest enemy, the king of Persia,
whom they, together with us, had expelled;--him, without us, they again
brought back, barbarian against Hellenes, and all the hosts, both of
Hellenes and barbarians, were united against Athens. And then shone forth
the power and valour of our city. Her enemies had supposed that she was
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