| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories by Mark Twain: for in a more sublime sphere, at the residence of a respectable
friend of this village. You cannot have an scruples upon this
mode of proceeding, if you will but remember it emanates from one
who loves you better than his own life--who is more than anxious
to bid you welcome to a new and happy home. Your warmest associates
say come; the talented, the learned, the wise, and the experienced
say come;--all these with their friends say, come. Viewing these,
with many other inducements, I flatter myself that you will come
to the embraces of your Elfonzo; for now is the time of your
acceptance of the day of your liberation. You cannot be ignorant,
Ambulinia, that thou art the desire of my heart; its thoughts
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Parmenides by Plato: they were before, in relation to the one.
Certainly.
Then that which had become younger becomes older relatively to that which
previously had become and was older; it never really is older, but is
always becoming, for the one is always growing on the side of youth and the
other on the side of age. And in like manner the older is always in
process of becoming younger than the younger; for as they are always going
in opposite directions they become in ways the opposite to one another, the
younger older than the older, and the older younger than the younger. They
cannot, however, have become; for if they had already become they would be
and not merely become. But that is impossible; for they are always
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Damaged Goods by Upton Sinclair: after the performance:
RABBI SIMON, OF THE WASHINGTON HEBREW CONGREGATION--If I could
preach from my pulpit a sermon one tenth as powerful, as
convincing, as far-reaching, and as helpful as this performance
of DAMAGED GOODS must be, I would consider that I had achieved
the triumph of my life.
COMMISSIONER CUNO H. RUDOLPH--I was deeply impressed by what I
saw, and I think that the drama should be repeated in every city,
a matinee one day for father and son and the next day for mother
and daughter.
REV. EARLE WILFLEY--I am confirmed in the opinion that we must
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