| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: Thus, for the land that lay beyond the cultivated fields, which
the peasants hired, four times the price that its value would
bring in if invested at five per cent was taken from the
peasants.
Nekhludoff had known all this before, but he now saw it in a new
light, and wondered how he and others in his position could help
seeing how abnormal such conditions are. The steward's arguments
that if the land were let to the peasants the agricultural
implements would fetch next to nothing, as it would be impossible
to get even a quarter of their value for them, and that the
peasants would spoil the land, and how great a loser Nekhludoff
Resurrection |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Alcibiades I by Plato: ALCIBIADES: That is true.
SOCRATES: You have not therefore to obtain power or authority, in order to
enable you to do what you wish for yourself and the state, but justice and
wisdom.
ALCIBIADES: Clearly.
SOCRATES: You and the state, if you act wisely and justly, will act
according to the will of God?
ALCIBIADES: Certainly.
SOCRATES: As I was saying before, you will look only at what is bright and
divine, and act with a view to them?
ALCIBIADES: Yes.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne: just as saucy as ever. She pretends to consider herself quite
beyond the age to be interested by such idle stories as these;
but, for all that, whenever a story is to be told, Primrose
never fails to be one of the listeners, and to make fun of it
when finished. Periwinkle is very much grown, and is expected
to shut up her baby house and throw away her doll in a month or
two more. Sweet Fern has learned to read and write, and has put
on a jacket and pair of pantaloons--all of which improvements I
am sorry for. Squash Blossom, Blue Eye, Plantain, and Buttercup
have had the scarlet fever, but came easily through it.
Huckleberry, Milkweed, and Dandelion were attacked with the
Tanglewood Tales |
