| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Republic by Plato: the world below, and has his final quietus.
In all that I should most certainly agree with you.
And surely you would not have the children of your ideal State, whom you
are nurturing and educating--if the ideal ever becomes a reality--you would
not allow the future rulers to be like posts (Literally 'lines,' probably
the starting-point of a race-course.), having no reason in them, and yet to
be set in authority over the highest matters?
Certainly not.
Then you will make a law that they shall have such an education as will
enable them to attain the greatest skill in asking and answering questions?
Yes, he said, you and I together will make it.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: he had a small greenhouse with tomatoes. "I wish I 'ad 'eat," he
said. "One can do such a lot with 'eat. But I suppose you can't
'ave everything you want in this world."
Both he and Marion's mother treated her with a deference that
struck me as the most natural thing in the world. Her own manner
changed, became more authoritative and watchful, her shyness
disappeared. She had taken a line of her own I gathered, draped
the mirror, got the second-hand piano, and broken her parents in.
Her mother must once have been a pretty woman; she had regular
features and Marion's hair without its lustre, but she was thin
and careworn. The aunt, Miss Ramboat, was a large, abnormally
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Plain Tales from the Hills by Rudyard Kipling: thing that kicked the beam in The Boy's mind was a remark that a
woman made when he was talking to her. There is no use in
repeating it, for it was only a cruel little sentence, rapped out
before thinking, that made him flush to the roots of his hair. He
kept himself to himself for three days, and then put in for two
days' leave to go shooting near a Canal Engineer's Rest House about
thirty miles out. He got his leave, and that night at Mess was
noisier and more offensive than ever. He said that he was "going
to shoot big game, and left at half-past ten o'clock in an ekka.
Partridge--which was the only thing a man could get near the Rest
House--is not big game; so every one laughed.
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