| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Hamlet by William Shakespeare: If Circumstances leade me, I will finde
Where truth is hid, though it were hid indeede
Within the Center
King. How may we try it further?
Pol. You know sometimes
He walkes foure houres together, heere
In the Lobby
Qu. So he ha's indeed
Pol. At such a time Ile loose my Daughter to him,
Be you and I behinde an Arras then,
Marke the encounter: If he loue her not,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Timaeus by Plato: future time, when we are at leisure, may have the consideration which they
deserve, but not at present.
Now, when all the stars which were necessary to the creation of time had
attained a motion suitable to them, and had become living creatures having
bodies fastened by vital chains, and learnt their appointed task, moving in
the motion of the diverse, which is diagonal, and passes through and is
governed by the motion of the same, they revolved, some in a larger and
some in a lesser orbit--those which had the lesser orbit revolving faster,
and those which had the larger more slowly. Now by reason of the motion of
the same, those which revolved fastest appeared to be overtaken by those
which moved slower although they really overtook them; for the motion of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Pool in the Desert by Sara Jeanette Duncan: about our reaping the reward of our misdeeds in this world--some of
us, anyway. If I had stayed in New York--'
'Yes?' said Madeline. 'I shall wake up presently,' she reflected,
'and find that I have been dreaming melodrama.' But that was a
fantastic underscoring of her experience. She knew very well she
was making it.
Mrs. Innes, again wrapped in astonished contemplation, did not
reply. Then she jumped to her feet with a gesture that cast
fortunes back into the lap of fate.
'One thing is certain,' she said; 'I can't do anything NOW, can I?'
Madeline laid hold of silence and made armour with it. At all
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