| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Daisy Miller by Henry James: chants and organ tones in the adjacent choir, and meanwhile,
between Mrs. Costello and her friends, there was a great deal
said about poor little Miss Miller's going really "too far."
Winterbourne was not pleased with what he heard, but when,
coming out upon the great steps of the church, he saw Daisy,
who had emerged before him, get into an open cab with her
accomplice and roll away through the cynical streets of Rome,
he could not deny to himself that she was going very far indeed.
He felt very sorry for her--not exactly that he believed that
she had completely lost her head, but because it was painful
to hear so much that was pretty, and undefended, and natural
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum: things he sought was the wing of a yellow
butterfly I would have informed him, before he
started out, that he could never secure it. Then
you would have been saved the troubles and
annoyances of your long journey."
"I didn't mind the journey at all," said
Dorothy; "it was fun."
"As it has turned out," remarked Ojo, "I can
never get the things the Crooked Magician sent
me for; and so, unless I wait the six years for
him to make the Powder of Life, Unc Nunkie
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Euthydemus by Plato: not convinced, either because he imagines that virtue is a thing which
cannot be taught at all, or that you are not the teachers of it? Has your
art power to persuade him, who is of the latter temper of mind, that virtue
can be taught; and that you are the men from whom he will best learn it?
Certainly, Socrates, said Dionysodorus; our art will do both.
And you and your brother, Dionysodorus, I said, of all men who are now
living are the most likely to stimulate him to philosophy and to the study
of virtue?
Yes, Socrates, I rather think that we are.
Then I wish that you would be so good as to defer the other part of the
exhibition, and only try to persuade the youth whom you see here that he
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