| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Little Rivers by Henry van Dyke: wheel, the type of somnolent industry; and there is a white
cascade, foaming in silent pantomime as the train clatters by; and
here is a long, still pool with the cows standing knee-deep in the
water and swinging their tails in calm indifference to the passing
world; and there is a lone fisherman sitting upon a rock, rapt in
contemplation of the point of his rod. For a moment you become a
partner of his tranquil enterprise. You turn around, you crane
your neck to get the last sight of his motionless angle. You do
not know what kind of fish he expects to catch, nor what species of
bait he is using, but at least you pray that he may have a bite
before the train swings around the next curve. And if perchance
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Timaeus by Plato: into fire and water, and thus rendered insoluble by either. Of bone he
made a globe which he placed around the brain, leaving a narrow opening,
and around the marrow of the neck and spine he formed the vertebrae, like
hinges, which extended from the head through the whole of the trunk. And
as the bone was brittle and liable to mortify and destroy the marrow by too
great rigidity and susceptibility to heat and cold, he contrived sinews and
flesh--the first to give flexibility, the second to guard against heat and
cold, and to be a protection against falls, containing a warm moisture,
which in summer exudes and cools the body, and in winter is a defence
against cold. Having this in view, the Creator mingled earth with fire and
water and mixed with them a ferment of acid and salt, so as to form pulpy
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pathology of Lying, Etc. by William and Mary Healy: Mental Pathology, 1904, pp. 140-142.
CHAPTER III
CASES OF PATHOLOGICAL LYING AND SWINDLING
In the group of twelve cases making up this chapter we have
limited ourselves to a simple type in order to demonstrate most
clearly the classical characteristics of pathological liars. How
pathological lying verges into swindling may be readily seen in
several of the following cases, e.g., Cases 3, 8, 10, 12,
although only two, Cases 3 and 12, have had time as yet to show
marked development of the swindling tendency. For the purpose of
aiding in the demonstration of the evolution of lying into
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