| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas: will not always have suitors in vain; this man may become
your husband."
"I don't say anything to the contrary."
"What cause have you to entertain such a happy prospect?"
"Rather say, this fear, Mynheer Cornelius."
"Thank you, Rosa, you are right; well, I will say then, this
fear?"
"I have only this reason ---- "
"Tell me, I am anxious to hear."
"This man came several times before to the Buytenhof, at the
Hague. I remember now, it was just about the time when you
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf: "it remains to consolidate."
"And these people don't see it!" Clarissa exclaimed.
"It takes all sorts to make a world," said her husband. "There would
never be a government if there weren't an opposition."
"Dick, you're better than I am," said Clarissa. "You see round,
where I only see _there_." She pressed a point on the back of
his hand.
"That's my business, as I tried to explain at dinner."
"What I like about you, Dick," she continued, "is that you're
always the same, and I'm a creature of moods."
"You're a pretty creature, anyhow," he said, gazing at her with
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Sophist by Plato: multiplicity of names which is applied to him shows that the common
principle to which all these branches of knowledge are tending, is not
understood.
THEAETETUS: I should imagine this to be the case.
STRANGER: At any rate we will understand him, and no indolence shall
prevent us. Let us begin again, then, and re-examine some of our
statements concerning the Sophist; there was one thing which appeared to me
especially characteristic of him.
THEAETETUS: To what are you referring?
STRANGER: We were saying of him, if I am not mistaken, that he was a
disputer?
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