| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg by Mark Twain: There was a pause--no response.
The Saddler. "Mr. Chairman, we've got ONE clean man left, anyway,
out of the late aristocracy; and he needs money, and deserves it. I
move that you appoint Jack Halliday to get up there and auction off
that sack of gilt twenty-dollar pieces, and give the result to the
right man--the man whom Hadleyburg delights to honour--Edward
Richards."
This was received with great enthusiasm, the dog taking a hand
again; the saddler started the bids at a dollar, the Brixton folk
and Barnum's representative fought hard for it, the people cheered
every jump that the bids made, the excitement climbed moment by
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Alcibiades I by Plato: the same time, the lesson imparted is simple, and the irony more
transparent than in the undoubted dialogues of Plato. We know, too, that
Alcibiades was a favourite thesis, and that at least five or six dialogues
bearing this name passed current in antiquity, and are attributed to
contemporaries of Socrates and Plato. (1) In the entire absence of real
external evidence (for the catalogues of the Alexandrian librarians cannot
be regarded as trustworthy); and (2) in the absence of the highest marks
either of poetical or philosophical excellence; and (3) considering that we
have express testimony to the existence of contemporary writings bearing
the name of Alcibiades, we are compelled to suspend our judgment on the
genuineness of the extant dialogue.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair: the other hand, if wage slavery were abolished, and I could earn
some spare money without paying tribute to an exploiting
capitalist, then there would be a magazine for the purpose of
interpreting and popularizing the gospel of Friedrich Nietzsche,
the prophet of Evolution, and also of Horace Fletcher, the
inventor of the noble science of clean eating; and incidentally,
perhaps, for the discouraging of long skirts, and the scientific
breeding of men and women, and the establishing of divorce by
mutual consent."
Dr. Schliemann paused for a moment. "That was a lecture," he
said with a laugh, "and yet I am only begun!"
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