| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Hermione's Little Group of Serious Thinkers by Don Marquis: There's the Twilight Sleep and the Mother-
Teacher Idea, for instance.
Our little group are thinking of starting a propo-
ganda to urge ALL Teachers to be Mothers.
And, of course, a lot of them might object -- but
along comes the Twilight Sleep and takes away all
POSSIBLE objections.
And along comes Philanthropy to put the Twi-
light Sleep within the reach of all -- at least, we
hope it will -- and we're going to take the matter up
with some of the Philanthropists right away.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Cavalry General by Xenophon: weak position himself, to conjure up so lively an apprehension in the
enemy that he will not dream of attacking; or conversely, when, being
in a strong position himself, he can engender a fatal boldness in the
adversary to venture an attack. Thus with the least cost to yourself,
you will best be able to catch your enemy tripping.
[1] Or, "sleight of hand"; and for {kleptein} = escamoter see "Anab."
IV. vi. 11, 15; V. vi. 9.
But to avoid suspicion of seeming to prescribe impossible feats, I
will set down, in so many words, the procedure in certain crucial
instances.
The best safeguard against failure in any attempt to enforce pursuit
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Land of Footprints by Stewart Edward White: bullet into his backbone.
We felt ourselves legitimately open to congratulations, for we
had killed this bull from a practically nocturnal herd, in the
face of considerable danger and more than considerable
difficulty. Therefore we shook hands and made appropriate remarks
to each other, lacking anybody to make them for us.
By now it was pitch dark in the thicket, and just about so
outside. We had to do a little planning. I took the Holland gun,
gave Memba Sasa the Winchester, and started him for camp after
help. As he carried off the lantern, it was now up to me to make
a fire and to make it quickly.
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