| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: middle of the floor was a basin such as Aben Hassen the Fool had
seen in the other room beyond; only this was filled with gold as
that had been filled with silver, and the gold was like that he
had found in the garden. When the young man saw this vast and
amazing wealth he stood speechless and breathless with wonder.
The Demon Zadok laughed. "This," said he," is great, but it is
little. Come and I will show thee a marvel indeed."
He took the young man by the hand and led him into a third
room--vaulted as the other two had been, lit as they had been by
a carbuncle in the roof above. But when the young man's eyes saw
what was in this third room, he was like a man turned drunk with
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Critias by Plato: great Platonic trilogy of the Sophist, Statesman, Philosopher, was never
completed. Timaeus had brought down the origin of the world to the
creation of man, and the dawn of history was now to succeed the philosophy
of nature. The Critias is also connected with the Republic. Plato, as he
has already told us (Tim.), intended to represent the ideal state engaged
in a patriotic conflict. This mythical conflict is prophetic or symbolical
of the struggle of Athens and Persia, perhaps in some degree also of the
wars of the Greeks and Carthaginians, in the same way that the Persian is
prefigured by the Trojan war to the mind of Herodotus, or as the narrative
of the first part of the Aeneid is intended by Virgil to foreshadow the
wars of Carthage and Rome. The small number of the primitive Athenian
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from An Unsocial Socialist by George Bernard Shaw: "For a girl of county family, you are inexcusably vulgar, Jane. I
don't know what I said; but she will never forgive me for
profaning her pet book. I shall be expelled as certainly as I am
sitting here."
"And do you mean to say that you are going away?" said Jane,
faltering as she began to realize the consequences.
"I do. And what is to become of you when I am not here to get you
out of your scrapes, or of Gertrude without me to check her
inveterate snobbishness, is more than I can foresee."
"I am not snobbish," said Gertrude, " although I do not choose to
make friends with everyone. But I never objected to you, Agatha."
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