| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Economist by Xenophon: Cyrus: "All this beauty is marvellous enough, but what astonishes me
still more is the talent of the artificer who mapped out and arranged
for you the several parts of this fair scene."[19] Cyrus was pleased
by the remark, and said: "Know then, Lysander, it is I who measured
and arranged it all. Some of the trees," he added, "I planted with my
own hands." Then Lysander, regarding earnestly the speaker, when he
saw the beauty of his apparel and perceived its fragrance, the
splendour[20] also of the necklaces and armlets, and other ornaments
which he wore, exclaimed: "What say you, Cyrus? did you with your own
hands plant some of these trees?" whereat the other: "Does that
surprise you, Lysander? I swear to you by Mithres,[21] when in
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Cousin Pons by Honore de Balzac: to join in the conversation.
"Yes, Daddy Remonencq."
"All right," said Remonencq, "ash to moneysh, he ish better off than
Mouchieu Monishtrol and the big men in the curioshity line. I know
enough in the art line to tell you thish--the dear man has treasursh!"
he spoke with a broad Auvergne dialect.
"Look here, I thought you were laughing at me the other day when my
gentlemen were out and I showed you the old rubbish upstairs," said
Mme. Cibot.
In Paris, where walls have ears, where doors have tongues, and window
bars have eyes, there are few things more dangerous than the practice
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pathology of Lying, Etc. by William and Mary Healy: careful in accepting as veracious any of her statements unless,
as in what is given above, they clearly followed the type of fact
which may be ascertained in the investigation of other instances
of pathological lying where the individual's word is more
reliable. The parents were able to corroborate many points. The
mother remembers the older girl in the town where they lived when
Janet was 7 years old and that this girl was notorious for her
sex tendencies, although she was not in the least aware that
Janet had been contaminated. Then she recollects that Janet used
to tell her so particularly about going with a special crowd of
girls (those which she now says were not her companions). Both
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