| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald: "come over." some afternoon to a stranger's garden.
"Did I have to know all this before he could ask such a little thing?"
"He's afraid, he's waited so long. He thought you might be offended.
You see, he's a regular tough underneath it all."
Something worried me.
"Why didn't he ask you to arrange a meeting?"
"He wants her to see his house," she explained. "And your house is right
next door."
"Oh!"
"I think he half expected her to wander into one of his parties,
some night," went on Jordan, "but she never did. Then he began asking
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: be easily blown into the air by the skirmishers in the course of a
few days. And in the meanwhile, on the mountain opposite, his
outnumbered adversary held his ground unshaken.
By this time the partisanship of the whites was unconcealed.
Americans supplied Mataafa with ammunition; English and Americans
openly subscribed together and sent boat-loads of provisions to his
camp. One such boat started from Apia on a day of rain; it was
pulled by six oars, three being paid by Moors, three by the
MacArthurs; Moors himself and a clerk of the MacArthurs' were in
charge; and the load included not only beef and biscuit, but three
or four thousand rounds of ammunition. They came ashore in Laulii,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Parmenides by Plato: limitation in relation to one another; whereas in their own nature they
have no limit.
That is clear.
Then the others than the one, both as whole and parts, are infinite, and
also partake of limit.
Certainly.
Then they are both like and unlike one another and themselves.
How is that?
Inasmuch as they are unlimited in their own nature, they are all affected
in the same way.
True.
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