| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Fisherman's Luck by Henry van Dyke: fact that they are usually cooked over an open fire. In the city
they never taste as good. It is not merely a difference in
freshness. It is a change in the sauce. If the truth must be told,
even by an angler, there are at least five salt-water fish which are
better than trout,--to eat. There is none better to catch.
IV
THE SMUDGE-FIRE
But enough of the cooking-fire. Let us turn now to the subject of
the smudge, known in Lower Canada as LA BOUCANE. The smudge owes
its existence to the pungent mosquito, the sanguinary black-fly, and
the peppery midge,--LE MARINGOUIN, LA MOUSTIQUE, ET LE BRULOT. To
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Parmenides by Plato: this is worked out and improved by Plato. When primary abstractions are
used in every conceivable sense, any or every conclusion may be deduced
from them. The words 'one,' 'other,' 'being,' 'like,' 'same,' 'whole,' and
their opposites, have slightly different meanings, as they are applied to
objects of thought or objects of sense--to number, time, place, and to the
higher ideas of the reason;--and out of their different meanings this
'feast' of contradictions 'has been provided.'
...
The Parmenides of Plato belongs to a stage of philosophy which has passed
away. At first we read it with a purely antiquarian or historical
interest; and with difficulty throw ourselves back into a state of the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Redheaded Outfield by Zane Grey: filled the air. The peanut venders and score-card
sellers kept up their insistent shrill cries. The
baseball park was alive now and restless; the
atmosphere seemed charged with freedom and
pleasure. The players romped like skittish colts,
the fans shrieked their witticisms--all sound and
movements suggested play.
Madge Ellston was somehow relieved to see
her uncle sitting in one of the lower boxes. During
this game she wanted to be alone, and she
believed she would be, for the President of the
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