| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Rinkitink In Oz by L. Frank Baum: wonder you have the heart to laugh at all. But how am I
to get you out?"
"I've been considering that all night," said
Rinkitink, "and I believe the best plan will be for you
to let down the bucket to me, and I'll hold fast to it
while you wind up the chain and so draw me to the top."
"I will try to do that," replied Inga, and he let the
bucket down very carefully until he heard the King call
out:
"I've got it! Now pull me up -- slowly, my boy,
slowly -- so I won't rub against the rough sides."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Ebb-Tide by Stevenson & Osbourne: odds and qnds of knowledge--to adjust again into any kind of
focus with itself, his picture of the man beside him.
'What brought you here to the South Seas?' he asked
presently.
'Many things,' said Attwater. 'Youth, curiosity, romance, the
love of the sea, and (it will surprise you to hear) an interest
in missions. That has a good deal declined, which will surprise
you less. They go the wrong way to work; they are too parsonish,
too much of the old wife, and even the old apple wife. CLOTHES,
CLOTHES, are their idea; but clothes are not Christianity, any
more than they are the sun in heaven, or could take the place of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Euthydemus by Plato: No, he replied, they mean what you say. And now answer.
What, before you, Dionysodorus? I said.
Answer, said he.
And is that fair?
Yes, quite fair, he said.
Upon what principle? I said. I can only suppose that you are a very wise
man who comes to us in the character of a great logician, and who knows
when to answer and when not to answer--and now you will not open your mouth
at all, because you know that you ought not.
You prate, he said, instead of answering. But if, my good sir, you admit
that I am wise, answer as I tell you.
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