| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Miracle Mongers and Their Methods by Harry Houdini: liquids assume a spheroidal form at
widely different temperatures, one may obtain
some startling results. For example, liquid
sulphurous acid is so volatile as to have a
temperature of only 13 degrees F. when in that state,
or 19 degrees below the freezing point of water, so
that if a little water be dropped into the acid,
it will immediately freeze and the pellet of
ice may be dropped into the hand from the
still red-hot disk. Even mercury can be frozen
in this way by a combination of chemicals.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Sophist by Plato: knowledge.
THEAETETUS: Of course.
STRANGER: The name of art-seller corresponds well enough to the latter;
but you must try and tell me the name of the other.
THEAETETUS: He must be the Sophist, whom we are seeking; no other name can
possibly be right.
STRANGER: No other; and so this trader in virtue again turns out to be our
friend the Sophist, whose art may now be traced from the art of acquisition
through exchange, trade, merchandise, to a merchandise of the soul which is
concerned with speech and the knowledge of virtue.
THEAETETUS: Quite true.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare: proper maid in Florence, one Diana, to take heed of the
allurement of one Count Rousillon, a foolish idle boy, but for
all that very ruttish: I pray you, sir, put it up again.
FIRST SOLDIER.
Nay, I'll read it first by your favour.
PAROLLES.
My meaning in't, I protest, was very honest in the behalf of the
maid; for I knew the young count to be a dangerous and lascivious
boy, who is a whale to virginity, and devours up all the fry it
finds.
BERTRAM.
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