| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lucile by Owen Meredith: (Looking larger than life, where she stood in the sun)
Point to him and murmur, "Behold!" Then that plume
Seem'd to wave like a fire, and fade off in the gloom
Which momently put out the world.
XXXIV.
To his side
Moved the man the boy dreaded yet loved . . . "Ah!" . . . he sigh'd,
"The smooth brow, the fair Vargrave face! and those eyes,
All the mother's! The old things again!
"Do not rise.
You suffer, young man?"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Summer by Edith Wharton: the gate. She took it out and hastened back to her
room.
The envelope bore her name, and inside was a leaf torn
from a pocket-diary.
DEAR CHARITY:
I can't go away like this. I am staying for a few days
at Creston River. Will you come down and meet me at
Creston pool? I will wait for you till evening.
IX
CHARITY sat before the mirror trying on a hat which
Ally Hawes, with much secrecy, had trimmed for her. It
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Parmenides by Plato: separated from the others, and has no parts?
Impossible.
Then there is no way in which the others can partake of the one, if they do
not partake either in whole or in part?
It would seem not.
Then there is no way in which the others are one, or have in themselves any
unity?
There is not.
Nor are the others many; for if they were many, each part of them would be
a part of the whole; but now the others, not partaking in any way of the
one, are neither one nor many, nor whole, nor part.
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