| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Main Street by Sinclair Lewis: dot live right here in town how you been acting wit' de boy?
I know what you done! Walking wit' him in de country!
Hiding in de woods wit' him! Yes and I guess you talk about
religion in de woods! Sure! Women like you--you're worse
dan street-walkers! Rich women like you, wit' fine husbands
and no decent work to do--and me, look at my hands, look
how I work, look at those hands! But you, oh God no, you
mustn't work, you're too fine to do decent work. You got
to play wit' young fellows, younger as you are, laughing and
rolling around and acting like de animals! You let my son
alone, d' you hear?" He was shaking his fist in her face. She
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Eryxias by Platonic Imitator: CRITIAS: Do you consider that he who bribes his neighbour's wife and
commits adultery with her, acts justly or unjustly, and this although both
the state and the laws forbid?
ERYXIAS: Unjustly.
CRITIAS: And if the wicked man has wealth and is willing to spend it, he
will carry out his evil purposes? whereas he who is short of means cannot
do what he fain would, and therefore does not sin? In such a case, surely,
it is better that a person should not be wealthy, if his poverty prevents
the accomplishment of his desires, and his desires are evil? Or, again,
should you call sickness a good or an evil?
ERYXIAS: An evil.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: of, and that was that Longstreth had a gun somewhere within
reach and meant to use it. Then heavy footsteps sounded outside
tramping upon the porch. Duane might have been mistaken, but he
believed those footsteps saved Lawson's life.
"There they are," said Lawson, and he opened the door.
Five masked men entered. They all wore coats hiding any
weapons. A big man with burly shoulders shook hands with
Longstreth, and the others stood back.
The atmosphere of that room had changed. Lawson might have been
a nonentity for all he counted. Longstreth was another man--a
stranger to Duane. If he had entertained a hope of freeing
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