| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Phaedo by Plato: youth to whom the lyre belongs? And this is recollection. In like manner
any one who sees Simmias may remember Cebes; and there are endless examples
of the same thing.
Endless, indeed, replied Simmias.
And recollection is most commonly a process of recovering that which has
been already forgotten through time and inattention.
Very true, he said.
Well; and may you not also from seeing the picture of a horse or a lyre
remember a man? and from the picture of Simmias, you may be led to remember
Cebes?
True.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: It wanted only a few moments, however, till Duane could
distinguish the vague forms of the hounds in the gray shadow
below. Still he waited. He had no shots to spare. And he knew
how to treat bloodhounds. Gradually the obscurity lightened,
and at length Duane had good enough sight of the hounds for his
purpose. His first shot killed the huge brute leader of the
pack. Then, with unerring shots, he crippled several others.
That stopped the baying. Piercing howls arose. The pack took
fright and fled, its course easily marked by the howls of the
crippled members. Duane reloaded his gun, and, making certain
all the hounds had gone, he descended to the ground and set off
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from An International Episode by Henry James: "We have been here three," said Mrs. Westgate.
"Have you been here three months?" the young man asked again of Bessie.
"It seems a long time," Bessie answered.
"I say, after that you had better not call me a humbug!" cried Lord Lambeth.
"I have only been in town three weeks; but you must have been hiding away;
I haven't seen you anywhere."
"Where should you have seen us--where should we have gone?"
asked Mrs. Westgate.
"You should have gone to Hurlingham," said Willie Woodley.
"No; let Lord Lambeth tell us," Mrs. Westgate insisted.
"There are plenty of places to go to," said Lord Lambeth;
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