| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: rule, but then so has Nora."
"Oh, she's prettier, is she?" With boyish audacity he grinned at
her.
"What do you think?"
He shook his head. "I'll have to go to the foot of the class on
that, ma'am. Give me an easier one."
"I'll have to choose another subject then. What did you do about
that bunch of Circle 66 cows you looked at on your way in?"
They discussed business for a few minutes, after which she went
back to her patient and he to his work.
"Ain't she a straight-up little gentleman for fair?" the foreman
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Richard III by William Shakespeare: Come, let us sup betimes, that afterwards
We may digest our complots in some form. Exeunt
SCENE 2.
Before LORD HASTING'S house
Enter a MESSENGER to the door of HASTINGS
MESSENGER. My lord, my lord! [Knocking]
HASTINGS. [Within] Who knocks?
MESSENGER. One from the Lord Stanley.
HASTINGS. [Within] What is't o'clock?
MESSENGER. Upon the stroke of four.
Enter LORD HASTINGS
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Theaetetus by Plato: have finished, and are coming towards us. Look and see whether you know
him.
SOCRATES: I know the youth, but I do not know his name; he is the son of
Euphronius the Sunian, who was himself an eminent man, and such another as
his son is, according to your account of him; I believe that he left a
considerable fortune.
THEODORUS: Theaetetus, Socrates, is his name; but I rather think that the
property disappeared in the hands of trustees; notwithstanding which he is
wonderfully liberal.
SOCRATES: He must be a fine fellow; tell him to come and sit by me.
THEODORUS: I will. Come hither, Theaetetus, and sit by Socrates.
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