| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: encouraging tones. He is also to signal to the huntsman with a shout,
that the quarry is taken, or has escaped this side or that, or that he
has not seen it, or where he last caught sight of it.[16]
[16] Or, "'caught,' 'escaped,' (this side or that), 'not seen,'
'marked.'"
The sportsman himself should sally forth in a loose, light hunting
dress,[17] and footgear[18] to match; he should carry a stout stick in
his hand, the net-keeper following. They should proceed to the
hunting-field in silence, to prevent the hare, if by chance there
should be one close by, from making off at the sound of voices. When
they have reached the covert, he will tie the hounds to trees, each
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Charmides by Plato: But what matter, said Charmides, from whom I heard this?
No matter at all, I replied; for the point is not who said the words, but
whether they are true or not.
There you are in the right, Socrates, he replied.
To be sure, I said; yet I doubt whether we shall ever be able to discover
their truth or falsehood; for they are a kind of riddle.
What makes you think so? he said.
Because, I said, he who uttered them seems to me to have meant one thing,
and said another. Is the scribe, for example, to be regarded as doing
nothing when he reads or writes?
I should rather think that he was doing something.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: plained to Dian the meaning of Raja and its feminine
equivalent--positively refused for a time to follow her
mate aboard. In fact, we had to shove off without her.
After a moment, however, she plunged into the water
and swam after us.
I let her come alongside, and then Juag and I pulled
her in, she snapping and snarling at us as we did so;
but, strange to relate, she didn't offer to attack us after
we had ensconced her safely in the bottom alongside
Raja.
The canoe behaved much better under sail than I
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