| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens: broken glass--
'He's out of his senses for the time, it's my belief,' said Hugh,
after shaking him, without any visible effect upon his system,
until his keys rattled in his pocket. 'Where's that Dennis?'
The word was again passed, and presently Mr Dennis, with a long
cord bound about his middle, something after the manner of a friar,
came hurrying in, attended by a body-guard of half-a-dozen of his
men.
'Come! Be alive here!' cried Hugh, stamping his foot upon the
ground. 'Make haste!'
Dennis, with a wink and a nod, unwound the cord from about his
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Sophist by Plato: still more perplexed in his attempt to escape us, for as the proverb says,
when every way is blocked, there is no escape; now, then, is the time of
all others to set upon him.
THEAETETUS: True.
STRANGER: First let us wait a moment and recover breath, and while we are
resting, we may reckon up in how many forms he has appeared. In the first
place, he was discovered to be a paid hunter after wealth and youth.
THEAETETUS: Yes.
STRANGER: In the second place, he was a merchant in the goods of the soul.
THEAETETUS: Certainly.
STRANGER: In the third place, he has turned out to be a retailer of the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Riverman by Stewart Edward White: his countenance had animated. He looked across at Orde several
times, hesitated, and at last decided to speak.
"Look here, Orde," said he, "I want to confess something to you.
When you first came here three days ago, I had lots of fun with
myself about you. You know your clothes aren't quite the thing, and
I thought your manner was queer, and all that. I was a cad. I want
to apologise. You're a man, and I like you better than any fellow
I've met for a long time. And if there's any trouble--in the
future--that is--oh, hang it, I'm on your side--you know what I
mean!"
Orde smiled slowly.
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