| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Charmides by Plato: not a beautiful face?
Most beautiful, I said.
But you would think nothing of his face, he replied, if you could see his
naked form: he is absolutely perfect.
And to this they all agreed.
By Heracles, I said, there never was such a paragon, if he has only one
other slight addition.
What is that? said Critias.
If he has a noble soul; and being of your house, Critias, he may be
expected to have this.
He is as fair and good within, as he is without, replied Critias.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: it do? Bianchon said that the old man was quite insensible."
"Well, then," said the employe from the Museum, "he will die as
he has lived."
"My father is dead!" shrieked the Countess.
The terrible cry brought Sylvie, Rastignac, and Bianchon; Mme. de
Restaud had fainted away. When she recovered they carried her
downstairs, and put her into the cab that stood waiting at the
door. Eugene sent Therese with her, and bade the maid take the
Countess to Mme. de Nucingen.
Bianchon came down to them.
"Yes, he is dead," he said.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad: went about with his name and address sewn on in all his coats in
case of an accident or sudden illness," said the Chief Inspector.
"He professed to be eighty-four years old, but he didn't look his
age. He told me he was also afraid of losing his memory suddenly,
like those people he has been reading of in the papers."
A question from the Assistant Commissioner, who wanted to know what
was No. 32 Brett Street, interrupted that reminiscence abruptly.
The Chief Inspector, driven down to the ground by unfair artifices,
had elected to walk the path of unreserved openness. If he
believed firmly that to know too much was not good for the
department, the judicious holding back of knowledge was as far as
The Secret Agent |
