| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Options by O. Henry: door."
"Come," said he, persuasively, "I think better of you than to suppose
that you try this sort of thing as a joke. But even the vagaries of a
fever-crazed lunatic come some time to a limit. What is this talk
about heads and baskets? Get yourself together and throw away that
absurd cane-chopper. What would Miss Greene think of you?" he ended,
with the silky cajolery that one would use toward a fretful child.
"Listen," said I. "At last you have struck upon the right note. What
would she think of me? Listen," I repeated.
"There are women," I said, "who look upon horsehair sofas and currant
wine as dross. To them even the calculated modulation of your well-
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Critias by Plato: left alone in the temple, after they had offered prayers to the god that
they might capture the victim which was acceptable to him, hunted the
bulls, without weapons, but with staves and nooses; and the bull which they
caught they led up to the pillar and cut its throat over the top of it so
that the blood fell upon the sacred inscription. Now on the pillar,
besides the laws, there was inscribed an oath invoking mighty curses on the
disobedient. When therefore, after slaying the bull in the accustomed
manner, they had burnt its limbs, they filled a bowl of wine and cast in a
clot of blood for each of them; the rest of the victim they put in the
fire, after having purified the column all round. Then they drew from the
bowl in golden cups, and pouring a libation on the fire, they swore that
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Virginian by Owen Wister: She hoped she had him. "Why, are you afraid?" And she laughed
lightly.
"I told 'em myself. And their astonishment seemed so genu-wine
I'd just hate to think they had fooled me that thorough when they
knowed it all along from you seeing me."
"I did not see you. I knew it must--Of course I did not tell any
one. When I said I said so from the first, I meant--you can
understand perfectly what I meant."
"Yes, ma'am."
Poor Molly was near stamping her foot. "And what sort of a
trick," she rushed on, "was that to play? Do you call it a manly
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