| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from One Basket by Edna Ferber: Tessie's evening diversion. She no longer had cause to say,
"Always gaddin' downtown, or over to Cora's or somewhere, like
you didn't have a home to stay in. You ain't been in a evening
this week, only when you washed your hair."
Tessie had developed a fondness for sunsets viewed from the back
porch --she who had thought nothing of dancing until three and
rising at half- past six to go to work.
Stepping about in the kitchen after supper, her mother would eye
the limp, relaxed figure on the back porch with a little pang at
her heart. She would come to the screen door, or even out to the
porch on some errand or other--to empty the coffee grounds, to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Of The Nature of Things by Lucretius: The wild laments, companions old of death
And the black rites.
This, too, in these affairs
'Tis fit thou hold well sealed, and keep consigned
With no forgetting brain: nothing there is
Whose nature is apparent out of hand
That of one kind of elements consists-
Nothing there is that's not of mixed seed.
And whatsoe'er possesses in itself
More largely many powers and properties
Shows thus that here within itself there are
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Hellenica by Xenophon: continued their march along the Eurotas. When they came to the bridge
they made no attempt to cross it to attack the city, for they caught
sight of the heavy infantry in the temple of Alea[28] ready to meet
them. So, keeping the Eurotas on their right, they tramped along,
burning and pillaging homesteads stocked with numerous stores. The
feelings of the citizens may well be imagined. The women who had never
set eyes upon a foe[29] could scarcely contain themselves as they
beheld the cloud of smoke. The Spartan warriors, inhabiting a city
without fortifications, posted at intervals, here one and there
another, were in truth what they appeared to be--the veriest handful.
And these kept watch and ward. The authorities passed a resolution to
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