| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Eryxias by Platonic Imitator: by hearing and we use the sense of hearing in giving instruction?
CRITIAS: Yes.
SOCRATES: And since medicine frees the sick man from his disease, that art
too may sometimes appear useful in the acquisition of virtue, e.g. when
hearing is procured by the aid of medicine.
CRITIAS: Very likely.
SOCRATES: But if, again, we obtain by wealth the aid of medicine, shall we
not regard wealth as useful for virtue?
CRITIAS: True.
SOCRATES: And also the instruments by which wealth is procured?
CRITIAS: Certainly.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Voice of the City by O. Henry: loudly proclaiming his opinions of the drama. A
writer was abusing Dickens. A magazine editor and
a photographer were drinking a dry brand at a re-
served table. A 36-25-42 young lady was saying to
an eminent sculptor: "Fudge for your Prax Italys!
Bring one of your Venus Anno Dominis down to
Cohen's and see bow quick she'd be turned down for
a cloak model. Back to the quarries with your
Greeks and Dagos!"
Thus went Bohemia.
At eleven Mr. Binkley took Medora to the board-
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The American by Henry James: "She is very pretty," said Newman.
"Exquisite," answered the young man, and this time, again, Newman suspected
him of irony.
His sister-in-law came round to the other side of the fire with her
cup of tea in her hand, holding it out at arm's-length, so that she
might not spill it on her dress, and uttering little cries of alarm.
She placed the cup on the mantel-shelf and begun to unpin her veil
and pull off her gloves, looking meanwhile at Newman.
"Is there any thing I can do for you, my dear lady?" the Count Valentin asked,
in a sort of mock-caressing tone.
"Present monsieur," said his sister-in-law.
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