| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Menexenus by Plato: And what I call the terrible and desperate nature of the war, is that the
other Hellenes, in their extreme animosity towards the city, should have
entered into negotiations with their bitterest enemy, the king of Persia,
whom they, together with us, had expelled;--him, without us, they again
brought back, barbarian against Hellenes, and all the hosts, both of
Hellenes and barbarians, were united against Athens. And then shone forth
the power and valour of our city. Her enemies had supposed that she was
exhausted by the war, and our ships were blockaded at Mitylene. But the
citizens themselves embarked, and came to the rescue with sixty other
ships, and their valour was confessed of all men, for they conquered their
enemies and delivered their friends. And yet by some evil fortune they
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from McTeague by Frank Norris: peering into the shadows of the camp, he uttered an
exclamation as of a man suddenly enlightened. He turned
back into the house, drew from under his bed the blanket
roll in which he kept his money hid, and took the
canary down from the wall. He strode to the door and
disappeared into the night. When the sheriff of Placer
County and the two deputies from San Francisco reached the
Big Dipper mine, McTeague had been gone two days.
CHAPTER 21
"Well," said one of the deputies, as he backed the horse
into the shafts of the buggy in which the pursuers had
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Flower Fables by Louisa May Alcott: Then Annie saw, with fear and wonder, that the angry words she uttered
changed to dark, unlovely forms, each showing plainly from what fault
or passion it had sprung. Some of the shapes had scowling faces and
bright, fiery eyes; these were the spirits of Anger. Others, with
sullen, anxious looks, seemed gathering up all they could reach, and
Annie saw that the more they gained, the less they seemed to have;
and these she knew were shapes of Selfishness. Spirits of Pride were
there, who folded their shadowy garments round them, and turned
scornfully away from all the rest. These and many others
little Annie saw, which had come from her own heart, and taken form
before her eyes.
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