| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Call of the Wild by Jack London: "Think it'll ride?" one of the men asked.
"Why shouldn't it?" Charles demanded rather shortly.
"Oh, that's all right, that's all right," the man hastened meekly
to say. "I was just a-wonderin', that is all. It seemed a mite
top-heavy."
Charles turned his back and drew the lashings down as well as he
could, which was not in the least well.
"An' of course the dogs can hike along all day with that
contraption behind them," affirmed a second of the men.
"Certainly," said Hal, with freezing politeness, taking hold of
the gee-pole with one hand and swinging his whip from the other.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pathology of Lying, Etc. by William and Mary Healy: country for him, and at 13 years of age he was placed in an
industrial school. He is the only child. He came home after 2
years, remained there for 3 or 4 months and then ran away once
more to California. (His home was in the middle West.) He was
returned by the police, sent to the industrial school for another
year, and then again returned home. He stayed only 2 weeks
before running away to New York. Coming back he got into some
trouble and was sent for the third time to the industrial school.
There he stayed until 6 months before we saw him. He was
released once more on parole, stayed at home a week, and again
ran away. It is reported that during his early time at the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Ion by Plato: the things of the Gods to us.
SOCRATES: And you rhapsodists are the interpreters of the poets?
ION: There again you are right.
SOCRATES: Then you are the interpreters of interpreters?
ION: Precisely.
SOCRATES: I wish you would frankly tell me, Ion, what I am going to ask of
you: When you produce the greatest effect upon the audience in the
recitation of some striking passage, such as the apparition of Odysseus
leaping forth on the floor, recognized by the suitors and casting his
arrows at his feet, or the description of Achilles rushing at Hector, or
the sorrows of Andromache, Hecuba, or Priam,--are you in your right mind?
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