| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: "Lady, I shore could do with some vittles. I'd shore relish a corn
pone if it didn't deprive you none."
"Madam, forgive my intrusion but--could I spend the night on your
porch? I saw the roses and smelled the honeysuckle and it was so
much like home that I was emboldened--"
No, these nights were not real! They were a nightmare and the men
were part of that nightmare, men without bodies or faces, only
tired voices speaking to her from the warm dark. Draw water, serve
food, lay pillows on the front porch, bind wounds, hold the dirty
heads of the dying. No, this could not be happening to her!
Once, late in July, it was Uncle Henry Hamilton who came tapping in
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Protagoras by Plato: best of the argument and represents the better mind of man.
For example: (1) one of the noblest statements to be found in antiquity
about the preventive nature of punishment is put into his mouth; (2) he is
clearly right also in maintaining that virtue can be taught (which Socrates
himself, at the end of the Dialogue, is disposed to concede); and also (3)
in his explanation of the phenomenon that good fathers have bad sons; (4)
he is right also in observing that the virtues are not like the arts, gifts
or attainments of special individuals, but the common property of all:
this, which in all ages has been the strength and weakness of ethics and
politics, is deeply seated in human nature; (5) there is a sort of half-
truth in the notion that all civilized men are teachers of virtue; and more
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Country Doctor by Honore de Balzac: and made the commandant enter, that he might show it to him.
"All our cowhouses have been rebuilt after this pattern, captain.
Look! Is it not magnificent?"
Genestas could not help admiring the huge place. The cows and oxen
stood in two rows, with their tails towards the side walls, and their
heads in the middle of the shed. Access to the stalls was afforded by
a fairly wide space between them and the wall; you could see their
horned heads and shining eyes through the lattice work, so that it was
easy for the master to run his eyes over the cattle. The fodder was
placed on some staging erected above the stalls, so that it fell into
the racks below without waste of labor or material. There was a wide-
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