| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: excitement of a tense moment, others apparently snatches of talk
with relatives. It was like the babbling of a child, irrelevant
and yet often insistent. He would in one breath give orders
connected with the lambing of his sheep, in the next break into
football talk, calling out signals and imploring his men to hold
them or to break through and get the ball. Once he broke into
curses, but his very oaths seemed to come from a clean heart and
missed the vulgarity they might have had. Again his talk rambled
inconsequently over his youth, and he would urge himself or
someone else of the same name to better life.
"Ned, Ned, remember your mother," he would beseech. "She asked me
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Euthyphro by Plato: EUTHYPHRO: By all means.
SOCRATES: I should not say that where there is fear there is also
reverence; for I am sure that many persons fear poverty and disease, and
the like evils, but I do not perceive that they reverence the objects of
their fear.
EUTHYPHRO: Very true.
SOCRATES: But where reverence is, there is fear; for he who has a feeling
of reverence and shame about the commission of any action, fears and is
afraid of an ill reputation.
EUTHYPHRO: No doubt.
SOCRATES: Then we are wrong in saying that where there is fear there is
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft: than a month I was in Dunedin; where, however, I found that little
was known of the strange cult-members who had lingered in the
old sea-taverns. Waterfront scum was far too common for special
mentnon; though there was vague talk about one inland trip these
mongrels had made, during which faint drumming and red flame were
noted on the distant hills. In Auckland I learned that Johansen
had returned with yellow hair turned white after a perfunctory
and inconclusive questioning at Sydney, and had thereafter sold
his cottage in West Street and sailed with his wife to his old
home in Oslo. Of his stirring experience he would tell his friends
no more than he had told the admiralty officials, and all they
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