| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe: September, escaped; and, which is very particular, contrary to its
ordinary operation in June and July, and the beginning of August,
when, as I have observed, many were infected, and continued so many
days, and then went off after having had the poison in their blood a
long time; but now, on the contrary, most of the people who were
taken during the two last weeks in August and in the three first weeks
in September, generally died in two or three days at furthest, and
many the very same day they were taken; whether the dog-days, or, as
our astrologers pretended to express themselves, the influence of the
dog-star, had that malignant effect, or all those who had the seeds of
infection before in them brought it up to a maturity at that time
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from At the Sign of the Cat & Racket by Honore de Balzac: he received as a gratuity some little gift, to which Madame
Guillaume's dry and wrinkled hand alone gave value--netted purses,
which she took care to stuff with cotton wool, to show off the fancy
stitches, braces of the strongest make, or heavy silk stockings.
Sometimes, but rarely, this prime minister was admitted to share the
pleasures of the family when they went into the country, or when,
after waiting for months, they made up their mind to exert the right
acquired by taking a box at the theatre to command a piece which Paris
had already forgotten.
As to the other assistants, the barrier of respect which formerly
divided a master draper from his apprentices was that they would have
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Economist by Xenophon: teach him that such conduct is not even to his interest.
[5] {oukoun}. "This, then, is my major premiss: the dumb animal . . ."
(lit. "the rest of animals").
[6] {ta kunidia} possibly implies "performing poodles."
[7] {te gnome . . . te glotte}, i.e. mental impression and expression,
"mind and tongue."
[8] Or, "to run round and round and turn heels over head." Al. "dive
for objects."
[9] "Logic, argument." Or, "a creature more compliant; merely by a
word demonstrate to him . . ."
[10] Cf. Plat. "Rep." 591 C.
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