| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Philebus by Plato: Philebus.
PHILEBUS: I think so too, but how do his words bear upon us and upon the
argument?
SOCRATES: Philebus is right in asking that question of us, Protarchus.
PROTARCHUS: Indeed he is, and you must answer him.
SOCRATES: I will; but you must let me make one little remark first about
these matters; I was saying, that he who begins with any individual unity,
should proceed from that, not to infinity, but to a definite number, and
now I say conversely, that he who has to begin with infinity should not
jump to unity, but he should look about for some number representing a
certain quantity, and thus out of all end in one. And now let us return
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu by Sax Rohmer: over him menacingly.
"Lord Southery was a lonely man," continued my friend.
"If I could have placed my proposition before one of his blood,
I do not doubt what my answer had been. Why do you hesitate?
Why do you experience this feeling of horror?"
Mr. Henderson stared down into the fire. His constitutionally
ruddy face was pale.
"It is entirely irregular, Mr. Smith. We have not the necessary powers--"
Smith snapped his teeth together impatiently, snatching his watch
from his pocket and glancing at it.
"I am vested with the necessary powers. I will give you
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley: over the tide-way roaring round the Blasquets, at the end of all
the world, and away into the ocean, and sighed - "Ah that I had
wings as a dove!" And far away, before the setting sun, he saw a
blue fairy sea, and golden fairy islands, and he said, "Those are
the islands of the blest." Then he and his friends got into a
hooker, and sailed away and away to the westward, and were never
heard of more. But the people who would not hear him were changed
into gorillas, and gorillas they are until this day.
And when St. Brandan and the hermits came to that fairy isle they
found it overgrown with cedars and full of beautiful birds; and he
sat down under the cedars and preached to all the birds in the air.
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