| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from In a German Pension by Katherine Mansfield: "Perhaps," thought the Child-Who-Was-Tired, "if I walked far enough up this
road I might come to a little white one, with tall black trees on either
side--a little road--"
"Salad, salad!" cried the Frau's voice from the house.
Soon the children came home from school, dinner was eaten, the Man took the
Frau's share of pudding as well as his own, and the three children seemed
to smear themselves all over with whatever they ate. Then more
dish-washing and more cleaning and baby-minding. So the afternoon dragged
coldly through.
Old Frau Grathwohl came in with a fresh piece of pig's flesh for the Frau,
and the Child listened to them gossiping together.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Alcibiades II by Platonic Imitator: ALCIBIADES: True.
SOCRATES: But is it necessary that the man who is clever in any of these
arts should be wise also in general? Or is there a difference between the
clever artist and the wise man?
ALCIBIADES: All the difference in the world.
SOCRATES: And what sort of a state do you think that would be which was
composed of good archers and flute-players and athletes and masters in
other arts, and besides them of those others about whom we spoke, who knew
how to go to war and how to kill, as well as of orators puffed up with
political pride, but in which not one of them all had this knowledge of the
best, and there was no one who could tell when it was better to apply any
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie: In front of him ran a narrow passage, with doors opening on
either side of it. From the one nearest him on the left came a
low murmur of voices. It was this room which he had been
directed to enter. But what held his glance fascinated was a
small recess immediately on his right, half concealed by a torn
velvet curtain. It was directly opposite the left-handed door
and, owing to its angle, it also commanded a good view of the
upper part of the staircase. As a hiding-place for one or, at a
pinch, two men, it was ideal, being about two feet deep and three
feet wide. It attracted Tommy mightily. He thought things over
in his usual slow and steady way, deciding that the mention of
Secret Adversary |
