| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from 'Twixt Land & Sea by Joseph Conrad: and a short hiss quite audible in the absolute stillness of all
things under heaven. At that I suppose he raised up his face, a
dimly pale oval in the shadow of the ship's side. But even then I
could only barely make out down there the shape of his black-haired
head. However, it was enough for the horrid, frost-bound sensation
which had gripped me about the chest to pass off. The moment of
vain exclamations was past, too. I only climbed on the spare spar
and leaned over the rail as far as I could, to bring my eyes nearer
to that mystery floating alongside.
As he hung by the ladder, like a resting swimmer, the sea-lightning
played about his limbs at every stir; and he appeared in it
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Polity of Athenians and Lacedaemonians by Xenophon: youths in the prime of life, and bearing whips,[7] to inflict
punishment when necessary, with this happy result that in Sparta
modesty and obedience ever go hand in hand, nor is there lack of
either.
[4] = "boyherd."
[5] Cf. Plut. "Lycurg." 17 (Clough, i. 107); Aristot. "Pol." iv. 15,
13; vii. 17, 5.
[6] Or, "assemble the boys in flocks."
[7] {mastigophoroi} = "flagellants."
Instead of softening their feet with shoe or sandal, his rule was to
make them hardy through going barefoot.[8] This habit, if practised,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Copy-Cat & Other Stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: in the moonlight seemed almost like a fairy-tale.
The sisters did not violently incriminate her. They
were too astute for that. They told half-truths.
They told truths which were as shadows of the real
facts, and yet not to be contradicted. They built
up between them a story marvelously consist-
ent, unless prearranged, and that Annie did not
think possible. George Wells figured in the tale,
and there were various hints and pauses concerning
herself and her own character in daily life, and not
one item could be flatly denied, even if the girl could
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