| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Edition of The Ambassadors by Henry James: at this moment to another twinge; but in this wonderful way of her
putting him in there continued to be something exquisitely
remorseless. "Monsieur de Vionnet will accept what he MUST accept.
He has proposed half a dozen things--each one more impossible than
the other; and he wouldn't have found this if he lives to a hundred.
Chad found it," she continued with her lighted, faintly flushed,
her conscious confidential face, "in the quietest way in the world.
Or rather it found HIM--for everything finds him; I mean finds
him right. You'll think we do such things strangely--but at my age,"
she smiled, "one has to accept one's conditions. Our young man's people
had seen her; one of his sisters, a charming woman--we know all
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Lost Princess of Oz by L. Frank Baum: the wicker castle, and its sharp points prevented anyone from climbing
it. Even the Patchwork Girl might be ripped to pieces if she dared
attempt it. "Ah!" exclaimed the Wizard cheerfully, "Ugu is now using
one of my own tricks against me. But this is more serious than the
Barrier of Fire, because the only way to destroy the wall is to get on
the other side of it."
"How can that be done?" asked Dorothy.
The Wizard looked thoughtfully around his little party, and his face
grew troubled. "It's a pretty high wall," he sadly remarked. "I'm
pretty sure the Cowardly Lion could not leap over it."
"I'm sure of that, too!" said the Lion with a shudder of fear. "If I
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lysis by Plato: of friends have not often been considered seriously in modern times. Many
of them will be found to be the same which are discussed in the Lysis. We
may ask with Socrates, 1) whether friendship is 'of similars or
dissimilars,' or of both; 2) whether such a tie exists between the good
only and for the sake of the good; or 3) whether there may not be some
peculiar attraction, which draws together 'the neither good nor evil' for
the sake of the good and because of the evil; 4) whether friendship is
always mutual,--may there not be a one-sided and unrequited friendship?
This question, which, like many others, is only one of a laxer or stricter
use of words, seems to have greatly exercised the minds both of Aristotle
and Plato.
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