| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Buttered Side Down by Edna Ferber: IV. A BUSH LEAGUE HERO
V. THE KITCHEN SIDE OF THE DOOR
VI. ONE OF THE OLD GIRLS
VI. MAYMEYS FROM CUBA
VIII. THE LEADING LADY
IX. THAT HOME-TOWN FEELING
X. THE HOMELY HEROINE
XI. SUN DRIED
XII. WHERE THE CAR TURNS AT 18TH
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Eryxias by Platonic Imitator: would not be thought richer than one who possessed Mount Lycabettus among
ourselves. And clearly those things cannot all be regarded as possessions;
for in some cases the possessors would appear none the richer thereby:
but, as I was saying, some one of them is thought in one place to be money,
and the possessors of it are the wealthy, whereas in some other place it is
not money, and the ownership of it does not confer wealth; just as the
standard of morals varies, and what is honourable to some men is
dishonourable to others. And if we wish to enquire why a house is valuable
to us but not to the Scythians, or why the Carthaginians value leather
which is worthless to us, or the Lacedaemonians find wealth in iron and we
do not, can we not get an answer in some such way as this: Would an
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Spirit of the Border by Zane Grey: as the cruel Huron, yet the Avenger had not chosen him. Was he reserved for a
different fate? Was not such a death too merciful for the frontier Deathshead?
He yelled in his craven fear:
"Le vent de la Mort!"
The well known, dreaded appellation aroused the savages from a fearful stupor
into a fierce manifestation of hatred. A tremendous yell rent the air.
Instantly the scene changed.
Chapter XXVI.
In the confusion the missionaries carried Young and Edwards into Mr. Wells'
cabin. Nell's calm, white face showed that she had expected some such
catastrophe as this, but she of all was the least excited. Heckewelder left
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