| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: room, with head thrown back and expanded chest, and stepping
lightly and softly in his usual manner, his spectacles, his bald
patch, and his black beard all glistening.
"How do you do? How do you do?" he said, laying an unnatural and
intentional stress on his words. (Though, soon after the
marriage, they had tried to be more familiar with each other,
they had never succeeded.)
They shook hands, and Rogozhinsky sank softly into an easy-chair.
"Am I not interrupting your conversation?"
"No, I do not wish to hide what I am saying or doing from any
one."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lin McLean by Owen Wister: their lack of ready money. But it was a good thing for these people that
it was Sunday, and the banks closed.
The church-bells ceased; the congregations sat inside, but outside the
hot town showed no Sunday emptiness or quiet. The metal tube, the
possible smell, Jode's sustained and haughty indignation, the
extraordinary assurance of Lusk, all this had ended by turning every one
restless and eccentric. A citizen came down the street with an umbrella.
In a moment the by-standers had reduced it to a sordid tangle of ribs.
Old Judge Burrage attempted to address us at the corner about the vast
progress of science. The postmaster pinned a card on his back with the
well-known legend, "I am somewhat of a liar myself." And all the while
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Phaedo by Plato: and when the fire is under the influence of the cold, they will not remain
as before, fire and cold.
That is true, he said.
And in some cases the name of the idea is not only attached to the idea in
an eternal connection, but anything else which, not being the idea, exists
only in the form of the idea, may also lay claim to it. I will try to make
this clearer by an example:--The odd number is always called by the name of
odd?
Very true.
But is this the only thing which is called odd? Are there not other things
which have their own name, and yet are called odd, because, although not
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