| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: calm or to subside, is a very remarkable feature of this
phenomenon. For example, when a gale is succeeded by a calm,
every third or fourth wave forms one of these great seas,
which occur in spaces of from three to five minutes, as noted
by the writer's watch; but in the course of the next tide they
become less frequent, and take off so as to occur only in ten
or fifteen minutes; and, singular enough, at the third tide
after such gales, the writer has remarked that only one or two
of these great waves appear in the course of the whole tide.
[Tuesday, 19th June]
The 19th was a very unpleasant and disagreeable day, both
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: come to the conclusion that Leopold was in virtue a prisoner
in Blentz. To prove his conclusion he directed one of his
staff to return to Blentz and attempt to have audience with
the king.
"Risk anything," he instructed the officer to whom he had
entrusted the mission. "Submit, if necessary, to the humilia-
tion of seeking an Austrian pass through the lines to the
castle. See the king at any cost and deliver this message
to him and to him alone and secretly. Tell him my fears,
and that if I do not have word from him within twenty-
four hours I shall assume that he is indeed a prisoner.
The Mad King |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Ion by Plato: right judgment of the sayings and doings of that art?
ION: Very true.
SOCRATES: Then which will be a better judge of the lines which you were
reciting from Homer, you or the charioteer?
ION: The charioteer.
SOCRATES: Why, yes, because you are a rhapsode and not a charioteer.
ION: Yes.
SOCRATES: And the art of the rhapsode is different from that of the
charioteer?
ION: Yes.
SOCRATES: And if a different knowledge, then a knowledge of different
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