| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Recruit by Honore de Balzac: the house. "That's a bold fellow! God guide him! He seemed to have his
answers ready. But he'd have been lost if any one but I had questioned
him and demanded to see his papers."
At that instant, the clocks of Carentan struck half-past nine; the
lanterns were lighted in Madame de Dey's antechamber; the servants
were helping their masters and mistresses to put on their clogs, their
cloaks, and their mantles; the card-players had paid their debts, and
all the guests were preparing to leave together after the established
customs of provincial towns.
"The prosecutor, it seems, has stayed behind," said a lady, perceiving
that that important personage was missing, when the company parted in
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Meno by Plato: what I want; tell me then, since you call them by a common name, and say
that they are all figures, even when opposed to one another, what is that
common nature which you designate as figure--which contains straight as
well as round, and is no more one than the other--that would be your mode
of speaking?
MENO: Yes.
SOCRATES: And in speaking thus, you do not mean to say that the round is
round any more than straight, or the straight any more straight than round?
MENO: Certainly not.
SOCRATES: You only assert that the round figure is not more a figure than
the straight, or the straight than the round?
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: Jordan; and the hush that on her lips surrounded the Captain's name
maintained itself as a kind of symbol of the success that, up to
this time, had attended something or other--she couldn't have said
what--that she humoured herself with calling, without words, her
relation with him.
CHAPTER XI
She would have admitted indeed that it consisted of little more
than the fact that his absences, however frequent and however long,
always ended with his turning up again. It was nobody's business
in the world but her own if that fact continued to be enough for
her. It was of course not enough just in itself; what it had taken
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