| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Foolish Virgin by Thomas Dixon: choke her the minute she opened her yap to me."
"Forget it, dear," she broke in briskly. "I want
you to take me to see your workshop tomorrow--will
you?"
A flash of suspicion shot from the depths of his
eyes.
"Did she tell you to ask me that?"
"Of course not! I'm just interested in everything
you do. I want to see where you work."
"It's no place for a sweet girl to go--that part of
town."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Euthydemus by Plato: get rid of a bad man and turn him into a good one--if they know this (and
they do know this--at any rate they said just now that this was the secret
of their newly-discovered art)--let them, in their phraseology, destroy the
youth and make him wise, and all of us with him. But if you young men do
not like to trust yourselves with them, then fiat experimentum in corpore
senis; I will be the Carian on whom they shall operate. And here I offer
my old person to Dionysodorus; he may put me into the pot, like Medea the
Colchian, kill me, boil me, if he will only make me good.
Ctesippus said: And I, Socrates, am ready to commit myself to the
strangers; they may skin me alive, if they please (and I am pretty well
skinned by them already), if only my skin is made at last, not like that of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen: great delight.
When tea was over, Mr. Hurst reminded his sister-in-law of the
card-table-- but in vain. She had obtained private intelligence
that Mr. Darcy did not wish for cards; and Mr. Hurst soon found
even his open petition rejected. She assured him that no one
intended to play, and the silence of the whole party on the
subject seemed to justify her. Mr. Hurst had therefore nothing to
do, but to stretch himself on one of the sofas and go to sleep.
Darcy took up a book; Miss Bingley did the same; and Mrs.
Hurst, principally occupied in playing with her bracelets and
rings, joined now and then in her brother's conversation with
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