| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne: formal chirography on more substantial materials than at present.
There was something about it that quickened an instinctive
curiosity, and made me undo the faded red tape that tied up the
package, with the sense that a treasure would here be brought to
light. Unbending the rigid folds of the parchment cover, I found
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The Scarlet Letter |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Start in Life by Honore de Balzac: world, he should reveal your misfortunes and laugh at your malady with
a strumpet?"
"I would thrash him for it."
"And if you discovered that he was also betraying your confidence and
robbing you?"
"I should endeavor to detect him, and send him to the galleys."
"Monsieur Moreau, listen to me. You have undoubtedly spoken of my
infirmities to Madame Clapart; you have laughed at her house, and with
her, over my attachment to the Comtesse de Serizy; for her son, little
Husson, told a number of circumstances relating to my medical
treatment, to travellers by a public conveyance in my presence, and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lysis by Plato: more than in the Charmides to the question, 'What is Temperance?' There
are several resemblances in the two Dialogues: the same youthfulness and
sense of beauty pervades both of them; they are alike rich in the
description of Greek life. The question is again raised of the relation of
knowledge to virtue and good, which also recurs in the Laches; and Socrates
appears again as the elder friend of the two boys, Lysis and Menexenus. In
the Charmides, as also in the Laches, he is described as middleaged; in the
Lysis he is advanced in years.
The Dialogue consists of two scenes or conversations which seem to have no
relation to each other. The first is a conversation between Socrates and
Lysis, who, like Charmides, is an Athenian youth of noble descent and of
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