| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: want them both, and she wanted them very much indeed.
After supper she had been dreamily playing over to herself one of
Chopin's waltzes, when she became aware, by some instinct, that
she was not alone in the room. There had been no least sound, no
slightest stir to betray an alien presence. Yet that some one was
in the room she knew, and by some subtle sixth sense could even
put a name to the intruder.
Without turning she called over her shoulder: "Shall I finish the
waltz?" No faintest tremor in the clear, sweet voice betrayed the
racing heart.
"Y'u're a cool hand, my friend," came his ready answer. "But I
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Touchstone by Edith Wharton: were as unfair to the girl as they were unnerving to himself.
Since he couldn't marry her, it was time to stand aside and give a
better man the chance--and his thought admitted the ironical
implication that in the terms of expediency the phrase might stand
for Hollingsworth.
II
He dined alone and walked home to his rooms in the rain. As he
turned into Fifth Avenue he caught the wet gleam of carriages on
their way to the opera, and he took the first side street, in a
moment of irritation against the petty restrictions that thwarted
every impulse. It was ridiculous to give up the opera, not
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Critias by Plato: contention that which more properly belonged to others. They all of them
by just apportionment obtained what they wanted, and peopled their own
districts; and when they had peopled them they tended us, their nurselings
and possessions, as shepherds tend their flocks, excepting only that they
did not use blows or bodily force, as shepherds do, but governed us like
pilots from the stern of the vessel, which is an easy way of guiding
animals, holding our souls by the rudder of persuasion according to their
own pleasure;--thus did they guide all mortal creatures. Now different
gods had their allotments in different places which they set in order.
Hephaestus and Athene, who were brother and sister, and sprang from the
same father, having a common nature, and being united also in the love of
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