| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The First Men In The Moon by H. G. Wells: who jostled to see me.
"It was an incredible crowd. Suddenly and violently there was forced upon
my attention the vast amount of difference there is amongst these beings
of the moon.
"Indeed, there seemed not two alike in all that jostling multitude. They
differed in shape, they differed in size, they rang all the horrible
changes on the theme of Selenite form! Some bulged and overhung, some ran
about among the feet of their fellows. All of them had a grotesque and
disquieting suggestion of an insect that has somehow contrived to mock
humanity; but all seemed to present an incredible exaggeration of some
particular feature: one had a vast right fore-limb, an enormous antennal
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Polity of Athenians and Lacedaemonians by Xenophon: performed in relation to the state. The scene, in fact, but little
lends itself to the intrusion of violence or drunken riot; ugly speech
and ugly deeds alike are out of place. Amongst other good results
obtained through this out-door system of meals may be mentioned these:
There is the necessity of walking home when the meal is over, and a
consequent anxiety not to be caught tripping under the influence of
wine, since they all know of course that the supper-table must be
presently abandoned,[10] and that they must move as freely in the dark
as in the day, even the help of a torch[11] to guide the steps being
forbidden to all on active service.
[7] Cf. Plat. "Phaedr." 240 C; {elix eklika terpei}, "Equals delight
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Buttered Side Down by Edna Ferber: don't? I'll tell you what. Come on over to the office with me and
I'll show you some real stuff."
"It's my supper time," hesitated Eddie. "I guess I'd better
not----"
"Oh, supper," laughed the man. "You come on and have supper
with me, kid."
Eddie's pink cheeks went three shades pinker. "Gee! That'd
be great. But my mother--that is--she----"
The man in the sailor suit laughed again--a laugh with a sting
in it. "A great big feller like you ain't tied to your ma's apron
strings are you?"
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