| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy: Revolution, Pariseau, a ballet-master, was beheaded by mistake for
Parisot, a captain of the King's Guard. I wish there was another
"E. Swancourt" in the neighbourhood. Look at this.'
He handed her the letter she had written and left on the table at
Mrs. Jethway's. She looked over it vacantly.
'It is not so much as it seems!' she pleaded. 'It seems wickedly
deceptive to look at now, but it had a much more natural origin
than you think. My sole wish was not to endanger our love. O
Harry! that was all my idea. It was not much harm.'
'Yes, yes; but independently of the poor miserable creature's
remarks, it seems to imply--something wrong.'
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Parmenides by Plato: accordance with its own nature, its nature will require that it should come
into being after the others, simultaneously with the end.
Clearly.
Then the one is younger than the others and the others older than the one.
That also is clear in my judgment.
Well, and must not a beginning or any other part of the one or of anything,
if it be a part and not parts, being a part, be also of necessity one?
Certainly.
And will not the one come into being together with each part--together with
the first part when that comes into being, and together with the second
part and with all the rest, and will not be wanting to any part, which is
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Lock and Key Library by Julian Hawthorne, Ed.: In the recent murder there had not been much to call forth
sympathy. The family consisted of two old bachelors, two sisters,
and one grandniece. The niece was absent on a visit, and the two
old men were cynical misers, to whom little personal interest
attached. Still, in this case as in that of the Weishaupts, the
same twofold mystery confounded the public mind--the mystery of the
HOW, and the profounder mystery of the WHY. Here, again, no atom
of property was taken, though both the misers had hordes of ducats
and English guineas in the very room where they died. Their bias,
again, though of an unpopular character, had rather availed to make
them unknown than to make them hateful. In one point this case
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