| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling: Pharaoh stopped, but the children said nothing.
'You've heard of him?' said Pharaoh.
Una shook her head.
'Was Red Jacket the Indian he played dice with?' Dan asked.
'He was. Red Jacket told me the next time we met. I asked if the
lame man had cheated. Red Jacket said no - he had played quite
fair and was a master player. I allow Red Jacket knew. I've seen
him, on the Reservation, play himself out of everything he had
and in again. Then I told Red Jacket all I'd heard at the party
concerning Talleyrand.
'"I was right," he says. "I saw the man's war-face when he
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson: you shall have the result. In Samoa, whither I return for good, I
shall myself make inquiries; up to now, I have neither seen nor
heard of any standing stones in that group. - Yours,
R. L. STEVENSON.
Letter: TO MRS. CHARLES FAIRCHILD
UNION CLUB, SYDNEY [SEPTEMBER 1890].
MY DEAR MRS. FAIRCHILD, - I began a letter to you on board the
JANET NICOLL on my last cruise, wrote, I believe, two sheets, and
ruthlessly destroyed the flippant trash. Your last has given me
great pleasure and some pain, for it increased the consciousness of
my neglect. Now, this must go to you, whatever it is like.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Sophist by Plato: intelligent sort of young children, to whom he shows his pictures at a
distance, into the belief that he has the absolute power of making whatever
he likes.
THEAETETUS: Certainly.
STRANGER: And may there not be supposed to be an imitative art of
reasoning? Is it not possible to enchant the hearts of young men by words
poured through their ears, when they are still at a distance from the truth
of facts, by exhibiting to them fictitious arguments, and making them think
that they are true, and that the speaker is the wisest of men in all
things?
THEAETETUS: Yes; why should there not be another such art?
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