| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mucker by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Having purchased and drunk a bottle of poor beer, the
temperature of which had probably never been below eighty
since it left the bottling department of the Texas brewery
which inflicted it upon the ignorant, he sauntered to the front
window and looked out.
There he saw that the bank building was a two-story affair,
the entrance to the second story being at the left side of the
first floor, opening directly onto the sidewalk in full view of
the sentry who paced to and fro before the structure.
Billy wondered what the second floor was utilized for. He
saw soiled hangings at the windows which aroused a hope
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton: come; but many are called and few are chosen." His voice sank to
solemnity. "While I live," he said, "no unworthy eye shall
desecrate that picture. But I will not do my friend Clyde the
injustice to suppose that he would send an unworthy
representative. He tells me he wishes a description of the
picture for his book; and you shall describe it to him--if you
can."
Wyant hesitated, not knowing whether it was a propitious moment
to put in his appeal for a photograph.
"Well, sir," he said, "you know Clyde wants me to take away all I
can of it."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Euthyphro by Plato: world is in ignorance.
SOCRATES: And do you really believe that the gods fought with one
another, and had dire quarrels, battles, and the like, as the poets
say, and as you may see represented in the works of great artists? The
temples are full of them; and notably the robe of Athene, which is
carried up to the Acropolis at the great Panathenaea, is embroidered
with them. Are all these tales of the gods true, Euthyphro?
EUTHYPHRO: Yes, Socrates; and, as I was saying, I can tell you, if you
would like to hear them, many other things about the gods which
would quite amaze you.
SOCRATES: I dare say; and you shall tell me them at some other time when I
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