| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy: It is awful if you think we have found ourselves not strong enough for it,
and knowing this, are proposing to perjure ourselves," she said.
"I fancy I do think it--since you ask me," said Jude. "Remember I'll
do it if you wish, own darling." While she hesitated he went on
to confess that, though he thought they ought to be able to do it,
he felt checked by the dread of incompetency just as she did--
from their peculiarities, perhaps, because they were unlike other people.
"We are horribly sensitive; that's really what's the matter
with us, Sue!" he declared.
"I fancy more are like us than we think!"
"Well, I don't know. The intention of the contract is good,
Jude the Obscure |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Ion by Plato: SOCRATES: What, in a worse way?
ION: Yes, in a far worse.
SOCRATES: And Homer in a better way?
ION: He is incomparably better.
SOCRATES: And yet surely, my dear friend Ion, in a discussion about
arithmetic, where many people are speaking, and one speaks better than the
rest, there is somebody who can judge which of them is the good speaker?
ION: Yes.
SOCRATES: And he who judges of the good will be the same as he who judges
of the bad speakers?
ION: The same.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Merry Men by Robert Louis Stevenson: solicitations. He spent long whiles on the eminence, looking down
the rivershed and abroad on the fat lowlands, and watched the
clouds that travelled forth upon the sluggish wind and trailed
their purple shadows on the plain; or he would linger by the
wayside, and follow the carriages with his eyes as they rattled
downward by the river. It did not matter what it was; everything
that went that way, were it cloud or carriage, bird or brown water
in the stream, he felt his heart flow out after it in an ecstasy of
longing.
We are told by men of science that all the ventures of mariners on
the sea, all that counter-marching of tribes and races that
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