| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Symposium by Plato: see that there is a mean between wisdom and ignorance?' 'And what may that
be?' I said. 'Right opinion,' she replied; 'which, as you know, being
incapable of giving a reason, is not knowledge (for how can knowledge be
devoid of reason? nor again, ignorance, for neither can ignorance attain
the truth), but is clearly something which is a mean between ignorance and
wisdom.' 'Quite true,' I replied. 'Do not then insist,' she said, 'that
what is not fair is of necessity foul, or what is not good evil; or infer
that because love is not fair and good he is therefore foul and evil; for
he is in a mean between them.' 'Well,' I said, 'Love is surely admitted by
all to be a great god.' 'By those who know or by those who do not know?'
'By all.' 'And how, Socrates,' she said with a smile, 'can Love be
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Four Arthurian Romances by Chretien DeTroyes: touched him or made a movement for anything, even if the other
had killed him. He does not touch him or raise his hand. But
Meleagant, beside himself with rage and shame when he hears that
it has been necessary to intercede in his behalf, strikes him
with all the strength he can muster. And the king went down from
the tower to upbraid his son, and entering the list he addressed
him thus: "How now? Is this becoming, to strike him when he is
not touching thee? Thou art too cruel and savage, and thy
prowess is now out of place! For we all know beyond a doubt that
he is thy superior." Then Meleagant, choking with shame, says to
the king: "I think you must be blind! I do not believe you see a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from When a Man Marries by Mary Roberts Rinehart: woke up. Was your door locked, Dal?"
"No. The door into the hall was, but the door into the dressing
room was open, and we found the door from there into the hall
open this morning."
"From three until five," Max repeated. "Was any one out of his
room during that time?"
"I was," said Tom Harbison promptly, from the foot of the bed. "I
was prowling all around somewhere about four, searching"--he
glanced at me--"for a drink of water. But as I don't know a pearl
from a glass bead, I hope you exonerate me."
Everybody laughed and said, "Of course," and "Sure, old man," and
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