| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Virginian by Owen Wister: the silence? For the silence which I had liked until now seemed
suddenly to be made too great by the presence of the deserted
buildings. And then the door of the stable opened, and men came
out and stood, also watching me arrive. By the time I was
dismounting more were there. It was senseless to feel as
unpleasant as I did, and I strove to give to them a greeting that
should sound easy. I told them that I hoped there was room for
one more here to-night. Some of them had answered my greeting,
but none of them answered this; and as I began to be sure that I
recognized several of their strangely imperturbable faces, the
Virginian came from the stable; and at that welcome sight my
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Animal Farm by George Orwell: and again, and, when the animals got to close quarters, lashed out with
their sticks and their heavy boots. A cow, three sheep, and two geese were
killed, and nearly everyone was wounded. Even Napoleon, who was directing
operations from the rear, had the tip of his tail chipped by a pellet. But
the men did not go unscathed either. Three of them had their heads broken
by blows from Boxer's hoofs; another was gored in the belly by a cow's
horn; another had his trousers nearly torn off by Jessie and Bluebell. And
when the nine dogs of Napoleon's own bodyguard, whom he had instructed to
make a detour under cover of the hedge, suddenly appeared on the men's
flank, baying ferociously, panic overtook them. They saw that they were in
danger of being surrounded. Frederick shouted to his men to get out while
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Symposium by Plato: the truth), but is clearly something which is a mean between ignorance and
wisdom.' 'Quite true,' I replied. 'Do not then insist,' she said, 'that
what is not fair is of necessity foul, or what is not good evil; or infer
that because love is not fair and good he is therefore foul and evil; for
he is in a mean between them.' 'Well,' I said, 'Love is surely admitted by
all to be a great god.' 'By those who know or by those who do not know?'
'By all.' 'And how, Socrates,' she said with a smile, 'can Love be
acknowledged to be a great god by those who say that he is not a god at
all?' 'And who are they?' I said. 'You and I are two of them,' she
replied. 'How can that be?' I said. 'It is quite intelligible,' she
replied; 'for you yourself would acknowledge that the gods are happy and
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