| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Baby Mine by Margaret Mayo: given his father's name, but he wished to HEAR someone say so.
"Baby's, I mean," he explained impatiently.
Jimmy felt instinctively that Zoie's eyes were upon him. He
avoided her gaze.
"Jimmy!" called Zoie, meaning only to appeal to him for a name.
"Jimmy!" thundered the infuriated Alfred. "You've called my boy
'Jimmy'? Why 'Jimmy'?"
For once Zoie was without an answer.
After waiting in vain for any response, Alfred advanced upon the
uncomfortable Jimmy.
"You seem to be very popular around here," he sneered.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Hellenica by Xenophon: deliverance of the troops with Cyrus, persuaded Agesilaus, to
undertake a campaign into Asia, provided the authorities would furnish
him with thirty Spartans, two thousand of the enfranchised,[2] and
contingents of the allies amounting to six thousand men. Apart from
these calculations, Lysander had a personal object: he wished to
accompany the king himself, and by his aid to re-establish the
decarchies originally set up by himself in the different cities, but
at a later date expelled through the action of the ephors, who had
issued a fiat re-establishing the old order of constitution.
[2] Technically, "neodamodes."
B.C. 396. To this offer on the part of Agesilaus to undertake such an
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Spirit of the Border by Zane Grey: nights the savages in distant towns could hear at dusk the deep-toned, mellow
notes of the bell summoning the worshipers to the evening service. Its ringing
clang, so strange, so sweet, so solemn, breaking the vast dead wilderness
quiet, haunted the savage ear as though it were a call from a woodland god.
"You have arrived most opportunely," continued Mr. Zeisberger. "Mr. Edwards
and Mr. Young are working to establish other missionary posts. Heckewelder is
here now in the interest of this branching out."
"How long will it take me to learn the Delaware language?" inquired Jim.
"Not long. You do not, however, need to speak the Indian tongue, for we have
excellent interpreters."
"We heard much at Fort Pitt and Fort Henry about the danger, as well as
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