| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Moran of the Lady Letty by Frank Norris: muttered, as he came down the steps, feeling for the middle of his
stick. He found no immediate answer to his question. But the
afternoon was fine, and he set off to walk in the direction of the
town, with a half-formed idea of looking in at his club.
At his club he found a letter in his box from his particular chum,
who had been spending the month shooting elk in Oregon.
"Dear Old Man," it said, "will be back on the afternoon you
receive this. Will hit the town on the three o'clock boat. Get
seats for the best show going--my treat--and arrange to assimilate
nutriment at the Poodle Dog--also mine. I've got miles of talk in
me that I've got to reel off before midnight. Yours.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Nana, Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, Death of Olivier Becaille by Emile Zola: woman overcome by a new and vivid sensation.
"I see it! I see it, Zoe! Look out at the other side. Oh, there's
a terrace with brick ornaments on the roof! And there's a hothouse
down there! But the place is immense. Oh, how happy I am! Do
look, Zoe! Now, do look!"
The carriage had bthin a wall. Then the view
of the kitchen garden entirely engrossed her attention. She darted
back, jostling the lady's maid at the top of the stairs and bursting
out:
"It's full of cabbages! Oh, such woppers! And lettuces and sorrel
and onions and everything! Come along, make haste!"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Parmenides by Plato: neither is the one part or whole of the not-one, nor is the not-one part or
whole of the one?
No.
But we said that things which are neither parts nor wholes of one another,
nor other than one another, will be the same with one another:--so we said?
Yes.
Then shall we say that the one, being in this relation to the not-one, is
the same with it?
Let us say so.
Then it is the same with itself and the others, and also other than itself
and the others.
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