| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Critias by Plato: Egyptian tale: (5) the remark that the armed statue of Athena indicated
the common warrior life of men and women: (6) the particularity with which
the third deluge before that of Deucalion is affirmed to have been the
great destruction: (7) the happy guess that great geological changes have
been effected by water: (8) the indulgence of the prejudice against
sailing beyond the Columns, and the popular belief of the shallowness of
the ocean in that part: (9) the confession that the depth of the ditch in
the Island of Atlantis was not to be believed, and 'yet he could only
repeat what he had heard', compared with the statement made in an earlier
passage that Poseidon, being a God, found no difficulty in contriving the
water-supply of the centre island: (10) the mention of the old rivalry of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: then turn to the right along the quay.
However, he was bound in all courtesy to turn his attention now to
the show which had been prepared in his honor, and which was really
well enough worth seeing and hearing. The English were, in those
days, an altogether dramatic people; ready and able, as in Bideford
that day, to extemporize a pageant, a masque, or any effort of the
Thespian art short of the regular drama. For they were, in the
first place, even down to the very poorest, a well-fed people, with
fewer luxuries than we, but more abundant necessaries; and while
beef, ale, and good woollen clothes could be obtained in plenty,
without overworking either body or soul, men had time to amuse
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Underground City by Jules Verne: He was clothed in a dark mantle, his hair was dishevelled, a long
white beard fell over his breast, and in his hand he bore a lighted
Davy safety lamp, the flame being protected by the metallic gauze
of the apparatus.
In a loud voice this old man shouted, "The fire-damp is upon you!
Woe--woe betide ye all!"
At the same moment the slight smell peculiar to carburetted hydrogen
was perceptibly diffused through the atmosphere. And, in truth,
the fall of the rock had made a passage of escape for an enormous
quantity of explosive gas, accumulated in vast cavities, the openings
to which had hitherto been blocked up.
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