| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Allan Quatermain by H. Rider Haggard: have drifted ashore before I realized what had happened, and
this history would never have been written by me.
CHAPTER III
THE MISSION STATION
We made the remains of our rope fast to the other canoe, and
sat waiting for the dawn and congratulating ourselves upon our
merciful escape, which really seemed to result more from the
special favour of Providence than from our own care or prowess.
At last it came, and I have not often been more grateful to
see the light, though so far as my canoe was concerned it revealed
a ghastly sight. There in the bottom of the little boat lay
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Cratylus by Plato: SOCRATES: Then the name is a part of the true proposition?
HERMOGENES: Yes.
SOCRATES: Yes, and a true part, as you say.
HERMOGENES: Yes.
SOCRATES: And is not the part of a falsehood also a falsehood?
HERMOGENES: Yes.
SOCRATES: Then, if propositions may be true and false, names may be true
and false?
HERMOGENES: So we must infer.
SOCRATES: And the name of anything is that which any one affirms to be the
name?
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from An International Episode by Henry James: measured on foot a couple of hours before, into the ancient town,
as it was called in that part of the world, of Newport. The ancient
town was a curious affair--a collection of fresh-looking little
wooden houses, painted white, scattered over a hillside and clustered
about a long straight street paved with enormous cobblestones.
There were plenty of shops--a large proportion of which appeared
to be those of fruit vendors, with piles of huge watermelons and
pumpkins stacked in front of them; and, drawn up before the shops,
or bumping about on the cobblestones, were innumerable other basket
phaetons freighted with ladies of high fashion, who greeted each other
from vehicle to vehicle and conversed on the edge of the pavement
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