| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Cratylus by Plato: of a king may be called a king. But if the horse had produced a calf, then
that would be called a calf. Whether the syllables of a name are the same
or not makes no difference, provided the meaning is retained. For example;
the names of letters, whether vowels or consonants, do not correspond to
their sounds, with the exception of epsilon, upsilon, omicron, omega. The
name Beta has three letters added to the sound--and yet this does not alter
the sense of the word, or prevent the whole name having the value which the
legislator intended. And the same may be said of a king and the son of a
king, who like other animals resemble each other in the course of nature;
the words by which they are signified may be disguised, and yet amid
differences of sound the etymologist may recognise the same notion, just as
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Arizona Nights by Stewart Edward White: know under a big rock back in Texas.
"Here's a trail," I thought, more than half loco; "I'll follow
it!"
At least that's what half of me thought. The other half was
sensible, and knew better, but it seemed to be kind of standing
to one side, a little scornful, watching the performance. So I
slid and slipped down to the strip of white earth, and, sure
enough, it was a trail. At that the loco half of me gave the
sensible part the laugh. I followed the path twenty feet and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: all like jelly, an' made o' sep'rit wrigglin' ropes pushed clost
together... great bulgin' eyes all over it... ten or twenty maouths
or trunks a-stickin' aout all along the sides, big as stove-pipes
an all a-tossin' an openin' an' shuttin'... all grey, with kinder
blue or purple rings... an' Gawd it Heaven - that haff face on
top...'
This final memory, whatever it was, proved too much
for poor Curtis; and he collapsed completely before he could say
more. Fred Farr and Will Hutchins carried him to the roadside
and laid him on the damp grass. Henry Wheeler, trembling, turned
the rescued telescope on the mountain to see what he might. Through
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