| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Lost Princess of Oz by L. Frank Baum: greater than her own, for having bathed in the enchanted water of the
Truth Pond, I can no longer deceive her or tell a lie."
More humbled than he had been for many years, the Frogman went back to
the grove where he had left Cayke and found the woman now awake and
washing her face in a tiny brook. "Where has Your Honor been?" she
asked.
"To a farmhouse to ask for something to eat," said he, "but the woman
refused me."
"How dreadful!" she exclaimed. "But never mind, there are other
houses where the people will be glad to feed the Wisest Creature in
all the World."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Laches by Plato: and Melesias. There will be no harm in asking ourselves the question which
was first proposed to us: 'Who have been our own instructors in this sort
of training, and whom have we made better?' But the other mode of carrying
on the enquiry will bring us equally to the same point, and will be more
like proceeding from first principles. For if we knew that the addition of
something would improve some other thing, and were able to make the
addition, then, clearly, we must know how that about which we are advising
may be best and most easily attained. Perhaps you do not understand what I
mean. Then let me make my meaning plainer in this way. Suppose we knew
that the addition of sight makes better the eyes which possess this gift,
and also were able to impart sight to the eyes, then, clearly, we should
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: the fagots would be lighted around the feet of the victims.
Closer and closer danced the hideous chief, his yellow,
sharp-filed teeth showing in the firelight between his thick, red
lips. Now bending double, now stamping furiously upon the
ground, now leaping into the air, he danced step by step in
the narrowing circle that would presently bring him within
spear reach of the intended feast.
At last the spear reached out and touched the ape-man on
the breast and when it came away, a little trickle of blood ran
down the smooth, brown hide and almost simultaneously there
broke from the outer periphery of the expectant audience a
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