| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Market-Place by Harold Frederic: to you as he is to us."
"Uncle Stormont!" Mrs. Dabney's repetition of the words
was surcharged with hostile sarcasm. "But his name
was Stormont as much as it was Joel, "broke in Alfred,
from his dark corner. "He has a perfect right to use
the one he likes best."
"Oh, I don't dispute his right," she replied,
once more in her passionless monotone. "Everybody can
call themselves whatever they please. It's no affair
of mine. You and your sister spell your father's
name in a way to suit yourselves: I never interfered,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tom Sawyer Abroad by Mark Twain: time you wanted it. And look at Russia. It spreads
all around and everywhere, and yet ain't no more im-
portant in this world than Rhode Island is, and hasn't
got half as much in it that's worth saving."
Away off now we see a little hill, a-standing up just
on the edge of the world. Tom broke off his talk, and
reached for a glass very much excited, and took a look,
and says:
"That's it -- it's the one I've been looking for,
sure. If I'm right, it's the one the dervish took the
man into and showed him all the treasures."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Sophist by Plato: sequence cannot be connected?
THEAETETUS: What are you saying?
STRANGER: What I thought that you intended when you gave your assent; for
there are two sorts of intimation of being which are given by the voice.
THEAETETUS: What are they?
STRANGER: One of them is called nouns, and the other verbs.
THEAETETUS: Describe them.
STRANGER: That which denotes action we call a verb.
THEAETETUS: True.
STRANGER: And the other, which is an articulate mark set on those who do
the actions, we call a noun.
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