| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Hiero by Xenophon: of Xenophon.
Would you be pleased to give me information, Hiero, upon certain
matters, as to which it is likely you have greater knowledge than
myself?[2]
[2] Or, "would you oblige me by explaining certain matters, as to
which your knowledge naturally transcends my own?"
And pray, what sort of things may those be (answered Hiero), of which
I can have greater knowledge than yourself, who are so wise a man?
I know (replied the poet) that you were once a private person,[3] and
are now a monarch. It is but likely, therefore, that having tested
both conditions,[4] you should know better than myself, wherein the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Pool in the Desert by Sara Jeanette Duncan: for the moment honest. It was an impulse--an equivocal impulse--
born doubtless of the equivocal situation, and it ended badly.
'She will bring something of the spring out to you,' said Madeline--
'the spring in England. How many years is it since you have seen
it? There will be a breath of the cowslips about her, and in her
eyes the soft wet of the English sky. Oh, you will be very glad to
see her.' The girl was well aware of her insincerity, but only
dimly of her cruelty. She was drawn on by something stronger than
her sense of honesty and humanity, a determination to see, to know,
that swept these things away.
Innes's hand tightened on the rickshaw, and he made at first no
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Rinkitink In Oz by L. Frank Baum: This being considered the best course to pursue, they
resolved to start on the following morning, as night
was even now approaching. The servants being all busy
in caring for the women and children, Zella undertook
to get a dinner for Inga and Rinkitink and herself and
soon prepared a fine meal in the palace kitchen, for
she was a good little cook and had often helped her
mother. The dinner was served in a small room
overlooking the gardens and Rinkitink thought the best
part of it was the sweet honey, which he spread upon
the biscuits that Zella had made. As for Bilbil, he
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