| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Apology by Plato: and fetched Leon, but I went quietly home. For which I might have lost my
life, had not the power of the Thirty shortly afterwards come to an end.
And many will witness to my words.
Now do you really imagine that I could have survived all these years, if I
had led a public life, supposing that like a good man I had always
maintained the right and had made justice, as I ought, the first thing? No
indeed, men of Athens, neither I nor any other man. But I have been always
the same in all my actions, public as well as private, and never have I
yielded any base compliance to those who are slanderously termed my
disciples, or to any other. Not that I have any regular disciples. But if
any one likes to come and hear me while I am pursuing my mission, whether
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: washed down sufficient rubble to form a narrow ribbon
of beach. Toward this I swam with all my strength. Not
once did I look behind me, since every unnecessary
movement in swimming detracts so much from one's
endurance speed. Not until I had drawn myself safely
out upon the beach did I turn my eyes back toward the
sea for the hyaenodon. He was swimming slowly and
apparently painfully toward the beach upon where I
stood.
I watched him for a long time, wondering, why it was
that such a doglike animal was not a better swimmer.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Heart of the West by O. Henry: hits the ground in high spots.'
"Solly puts six thousand dollars in century bills in one pocket of his
brown ducks, and bills of lading for ten thousand dollars on Eastern
banks in another. Then I resume diplomatic relations with the S.A. &
A.P., and we hike in a northwesterly direction on our circuitous route
to the spice gardens of the Yankee Orient.
"We stopped in San Antonio long enough for Solly to buy some clothes,
and eight rounds of drinks for the guests and employees of the Menger
Hotel, and order four Mexican saddles with silver trimmings and white
Angora /suaderos/ to be shipped down to the ranch. From there we made
a big jump to St. Louis. We got there in time for dinner; and I put
Heart of the West |
