| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Two Poets by Honore de Balzac: saying?"
The people whom he loved best were bores anxious to talk about
themselves; he listened to them with an unfeigned and delicate
interest which so endeared him to the species that all the twaddlers
of Angouleme credited M. de Bargeton with more understanding than he
chose to show, and were of the opinion that he was underrated. So it
happened that when these persons could find nobody else to listen to
them, they went off to give M. de Bargeton the benefit of the rest of
the story, argument, or what not, sure beforehand of his eulogistic
smile. Madame de Bargeton's rooms were always crowded, and generally
her husband felt quite at ease. He interested himself in the smallest
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Parmenides by Plato: Certainly.
If it were nowhere, it would be nothing; but being a whole, and not being
in itself, it must be in another.
Very true.
The one then, regarded as a whole, is in another, but regarded as being all
its parts, is in itself; and therefore the one must be itself in itself and
also in another.
Certainly.
The one then, being of this nature, is of necessity both at rest and in
motion?
How?
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis: wonder--It's kind of a hard question. Wonder what Littlefield thinks about
it?"
"Course Papa agrees with you. He says all this--Instruction is--He says
'tisn't decent."
"Oh, he does, does he! Well, let me tell you that whatever Henry T. Thompson
thinks--about morals, I mean, though course you can't beat the old duffer--"
"Why, what a way to talk of Papa!"
"--simply can't beat him at getting in on the ground floor of a deal, but let
me tell you whenever he springs any ideas about higher things and education,
then I know I think just the opposite. You may not regard me as any great
brain-shark, but believe me, I'm a regular college president, compared with
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