| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Riverman by Stewart Edward White: "I see no use in it," said he, passing his hand over his hair
"slicked" down in the lumber-jack fashion. "I can run me own widout
help from any man."
"Which seems to settle that!" said Newmark to Orde after they had
left.
"Oh, well, his drive is small; and he's behind us," Orde pointed
out.
"True," said Newmark thoughtfully.
"Now," said Newmark, as they trudged back to their hotel to get
lunch and their hand-bags. "I'll get to work at my part of it.
This proposition of Heinzman's has given me an idea. I'm not going
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Golden Sayings of Epictetus by Epictetus: a man to show you in act and deed that it may be so. Behold me! I
have neither house nor possessions nor servants: the ground is my
couch; I have no wife, no children, no shelter--nothing but
earth and sky, and one poor cloak. And what lack I yet? am I not
untouched by sorrow, by fear? am I not free? . . . when have I
laid anything to the charge of God or Man? when have I accussed
any? hath any of you seen me with a sorrowful countenance? And in
what wise treat I those of whom you stand in fear and awe? Is it
not as slaves? Who when he seeth me doth not think that he
beholdeth his Master and his King?
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Poems by T. S. Eliot: I should have been a pair of ragged claws
Scuttling across the doors of silent seas.
. . . . . . . . .
And the afternoon, the evening, sleeps so peacefully!
Smoothed by long fingers,
Asleep ... tired ... or it malingers.
Stretched on on the floor, here beside you and me.
Should I, after tea and cakes and ices,
Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?
But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed,
Though I have seen my head (grown slightly bald)
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