| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas: not satisfied till he was close to his chest, upon the edge
of which, for still greater precaution, he placed his feet.
The procurator's wife took Porthos into an adjoining room,
and they began to lay the basis of a reconciliation.
"You can come and dine three times a week," said Mme.
Coquenard.
"Thanks, madame!" said Porthos, "but I don't like to abuse
your kindness; besides, I must think of my outfit!"
"That's true," said the procurator's wife, groaning, "that
unfortunate outfit!"
"Alas, yes," said Porthos, "it is so."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Daisy Miller by Henry James: "Nevertheless," Winterbourne said to himself, "a nice girl ought to know!"
And then he came back to the question whether this was, in fact,
a nice girl. Would a nice girl, even allowing for her being a little
American flirt, make a rendezvous with a presumably low-lived foreigner?
The rendezvous in this case, indeed, had been in broad daylight and in
the most crowded corner of Rome, but was it not impossible to regard
the choice of these circumstances as a proof of extreme cynicism?
Singular though it may seem, Winterbourne was vexed that the young girl,
in joining her amoroso, should not appear more impatient
of his own company, and he was vexed because of his inclination.
It was impossible to regard her as a perfectly well-conducted
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Cratylus by Plato: explanation.
SOCRATES: Say rather an harmonious name, as beseems the God of Harmony.
In the first place, the purgations and purifications which doctors and
diviners use, and their fumigations with drugs magical or medicinal, as
well as their washings and lustral sprinklings, have all one and the same
object, which is to make a man pure both in body and soul.
HERMOGENES: Very true.
SOCRATES: And is not Apollo the purifier, and the washer, and the absolver
from all impurities?
HERMOGENES: Very true.
SOCRATES: Then in reference to his ablutions and absolutions, as being the
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