| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Arrow of Gold by Joseph Conrad: side of the studio, pacing up and down the central path of that
"ridiculous" garden: for its elegance and its air of good breeding
the most remarkable figure that I have ever seen before or since.
He had changed his coat. Madame Blunt mere lowered the long-
handled glasses through which she had been contemplating him with
an appraising, absorbed expression which had nothing maternal in
it. But what she said to me was:
"You understand my anxieties while he is campaigning with the
King."
She had spoken in French and she had used the expression "mes
transes" but for all the rest, intonation, bearing, solemnity, she
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Ion by Plato: rest, there is somebody who can judge which of them is the good speaker?
ION: Yes.
SOCRATES: And he who judges of the good will be the same as he who judges
of the bad speakers?
ION: The same.
SOCRATES: And he will be the arithmetician?
ION: Yes.
SOCRATES: Well, and in discussions about the wholesomeness of food, when
many persons are speaking, and one speaks better than the rest, will he who
recognizes the better speaker be a different person from him who recognizes
the worse, or the same?
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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: demands short of beating her, but her malice would accept nothing of
which the account did not go for final settlement to Judy Thynne.
If her husband wanted his liberty, he should have it, she declared,
at that price and no other. Major Harbottle did indeed deeply long
for his liberty, and his interesting friend, Mrs. Thynne, had, one
can only say, the most vivid commiseration for his bondage.
Whatever chance they had of winning, to win would be, for the end
they had at heart, to lose, so they simply abstained, as it were,
from comment upon the detestable procedure which terminated in the
rule absolute. I have often wondered whether the whole business
would not have been more defensible if there had been on Judy's part
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