| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain: But what I want to say, is, don't YOU ever get drunk --
then you won't ever get here. Stand a litter furder west
-- so -- that's it; it's a prime comfort to see faces that's
friendly when a body's in such a muck of trouble, and
there don't none come here but yourn. Good friendly
faces -- good friendly faces. Git up on one another's
backs and let me touch 'em. That's it. Shake hands
-- yourn'll come through the bars, but mine's too big.
Little hands, and weak -- but they've helped Muff
Potter a power, and they'd help him more if they
could."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Phaedrus by Plato: moral or semi-rational soul of Aristotle. And thus, for the first time
perhaps in the history of philosophy, we have represented to us the
threefold division of psychology. The image of the charioteer and the
steeds has been compared with a similar image which occurs in the verses of
Parmenides; but it is important to remark that the horses of Parmenides
have no allegorical meaning, and that the poet is only describing his own
approach in a chariot to the regions of light and the house of the goddess
of truth.
The triple soul has had a previous existence, in which following in the
train of some god, from whom she derived her character, she beheld
partially and imperfectly the vision of absolute truth. All her after
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Case of The Lamp That Went Out by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: clangingly behind the man whose face was distorted in impotent rage
and despair, Joseph Muller was standing in deep thought before the
broken willow twig, which now hung brown and dry across the planks
of the fence. He looked at it for a long time. That is, he seemed
to be looking at it, but in reality his eyes were looking out and
beyond the willow twig, out into the unknown, where the unknown
murderer was still at large. Leopold Winkler's body had already
been committed to the earth. How long will it be before his death
is avenged? Or perhaps how long may it even be before it is
discovered from what motive this murder was committed. Was it a
murder for robbery, or a murder for personal revenge perhaps? Were
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