| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Hermione's Little Group of Serious Thinkers by Don Marquis: It made me feel that I'd be willing to do anything,
simply ANYTHING! -- to help those poor, unfortunate
convicts. Collect money, you know, or give talks,
or read books about them, or make any other
sacrifice.
Even get them jobs. One ought to help them to
start over again, you know.
Though as for hiring one of them myself, or
rather getting Papa to -- well, really, you know,
one must draw the line somewhere!
But it's a perfectly fascinating subject to take up,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Hellenica by Xenophon: another, were in truth what they appeared to be--the veriest handful.
And these kept watch and ward. The authorities passed a resolution to
announce to the helots that whosoever among them chose to take arms
and join a regiment should have his freedom guaranteed to him by
solemn pledges in return for assistance in the common war.[30] More
than six thousand helots, it is said, enrolled themselves, so that a
new terror was excited by the very incorporation of these men, whose
numbers seemed to be excessive. But when it was found that the
mercenaries from Orchomenus remained faithful, and reinforcements came
to Lacedaemon from Phlius, Corinth, Epidaurus, and Pellene, and some
other states, the dread of these new levies was speedily diminished.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Phantasmagoria and Other Poems by Lewis Carroll: Is capable of ANY crimes!"
He felt it was his turn to speak,
And, with a shamed and crimson cheek,
Moaned "This is harder than Bezique!"
But when she asked him "Wherefore so?"
He felt his very whiskers glow,
And frankly owned "I do not know."
While, like broad waves of golden grain,
Or sunlit hues on cloistered pane,
His colour came and went again.
Pitying his obvious distress,
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