| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Moran of the Lady Letty by Frank Norris: instinct of his Viking ancestors--an instinct that a thousand
years of respectability and taxpaying have not quite succeeded in
eliminating.
A flight of six steps, brass-bound and bearing the double L of the
bark's monogram, led them down into a sort of vestibule. From the
vestibule a door opened directly into the main cabin. They
entered.
The cabin was some twenty feet long and unusually spacious. Fresh
from his recollection of the grime and reek of the schooner, it
struck Wilbur as particularly dainty. It was painted white with
stripes of blue, gold and pea-green. On either side three doors
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Protagoras by Plato: suggest as a compromise that Protagoras shall ask and he will answer, and
that when Protagoras is tired of asking he himself will ask and Protagoras
shall answer. To this the latter yields a reluctant assent.
Protagoras selects as his thesis a poem of Simonides of Ceos, in which he
professes to find a contradiction. First the poet says,
'Hard is it to become good,'
and then reproaches Pittacus for having said, 'Hard is it to be good.' How
is this to be reconciled? Socrates, who is familiar with the poem, is
embarrassed at first, and invokes the aid of Prodicus, the countryman of
Simonides, but apparently only with the intention of flattering him into
absurdities. First a distinction is drawn between (Greek) to be, and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: number throughout the genealogy of them that were apt to the war and to
battle was twenty and six thousand men.
CH1 8:1 Now Benjamin begat Bela his firstborn, Ashbel the second, and
Aharah the third,
CH1 8:2 Nohah the fourth, and Rapha the fifth.
CH1 8:3 And the sons of Bela were, Addar, and Gera, and Abihud,
CH1 8:4 And Abishua, and Naaman, and Ahoah,
CH1 8:5 And Gera, and Shephuphan, and Huram.
CH1 8:6 And these are the sons of Ehud: these are the heads of the
fathers of the inhabitants of Geba, and they removed them to Manahath:
CH1 8:7 And Naaman, and Ahiah, and Gera, he removed them, and begat
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