| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Euthydemus by Plato: their secret to all the world: they should be more reserved, and let no
one be present at this exhibition who does not pay them a handsome fee; or
better still they might practise on one another only. He concludes with a
respectful request that they will receive him and Cleinias among their
disciples.
Crito tells Socrates that he has heard one of the audience criticise
severely this wisdom,--not sparing Socrates himself for countenancing such
an exhibition. Socrates asks what manner of man was this censorious
critic. 'Not an orator, but a great composer of speeches.' Socrates
understands that he is an amphibious animal, half philosopher, half
politician; one of a class who have the highest opinion of themselves and a
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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: her. Cecily thought very well of me already; indeed, with private
reservations as to my manners and--no, NOT my morals, I believe I
exceeded her expectations of what a perfectly new and untrained
mother would be likely to prove. It was my theory that she found me
all she could understand me to be. The maternal virtues of the
outside were certainly mine; I put them on with care every morning
and wore them with patience all day. Dacres, I assured myself, must
have allowed his preconception to lead him absurdly by the nose not
to see that the girl was satisfied, that my impatience, my
impotence, did not at all make her miserable. Evidently, however,
he had created our relations differently; evidently he had set
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: power. Then a sudden return of rightful consciousness, intermittently
plagued ever after with vague unplaceable dreams suggesting fragments
of some hideous memory elaborately blotted out.
And the close
resemblance of those nightmares to my own - even in some of the
smallest particulars - left no doubt in my mind of their significantly
typical nature. One or two of the cases had an added ring of faint,
blasphemous familiarity, as if I had heard of them before through
some cosmic channel too morbid and frightful to contemplate. In
three instances there was specific mention of such an unknown
machine as had been in my house before the second change.
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