| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Oscar Wilde Miscellaneous by Oscar Wilde: FIRST MAN. We are afraid of him.
MYRRHINA. Why are ye afraid of him?
FIRST MAN. We do not know.
MYRRHINA. What is his name?
FIRST MAN. The voice that speaks to him at night time in the cavern
calls to him by the name of Honorius. It was also by the name of
Honorius that the three lepers who passed by once called to him. We
think that his name is Honorius.
MYRRHINA. Why did the three lepers call to him?
FIRST MAN. That he might heal them.
MYRRHINA. Did he heal them?
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: For none of us can tell what, or when, or how, the end may be.
As for me, my own affairs are regulate, and as I have nothing
else to do, I shall go make arrangements for the travel.
I shall have all tickets and so forth for our journey."
There was nothing further to be said, and we parted.
I shall now settle up all my affairs of earth, and be ready
for whatever may come.
Later.--It is done. My will is made, and all complete.
Mina if she survive is my sole heir. If it should not be so,
then the others who have been so good to us shall have remainder.
It is now drawing towards the sunset. Mina's uneasiness
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Menexenus by Plato: remaining Hellenes. And why should I say more? for the events of which I
am speaking happened not long ago and we can all of us remember how the
chief peoples of Hellas, Argives and Boeotians and Corinthians, came to
feel the need of us, and, what is the greatest miracle of all, the Persian
king himself was driven to such extremity as to come round to the opinion,
that from this city, of which he was the destroyer, and from no other, his
salvation would proceed.
And if a person desired to bring a deserved accusation against our city, he
would find only one charge which he could justly urge--that she was too
compassionate and too favourable to the weaker side. And in this instance
she was not able to hold out or keep her resolution of refusing aid to her
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