| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Padre Ignacio by Owen Wister: Now he sat staring at his Temptation's face, close to him, while then in
the triangle two ships went sailing by.
One morning Felipe told him that the barkentine was here on its return
voyage south. "Indeed." said the Padre, coldly. "The things are ready
to go, I think." For the vessel called for mail and certain boxes that
the mission sent away. Felipe left the room in wonder at the Padre's
manner. But the priest was laughing secretly to see how little it was to
him where the barkentine was, or whether it should be coming or going.
But in the afternoon, at his piano, he found himself saying, "Other
ships call here, at any rate." And then for the first time he prayed to
be delivered from his thoughts. Yet presently he left his seat and looked
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Gorgias by Plato: differ.
GORGIAS: Very true.
SOCRATES: And yet those who have learned as well as those who have
believed are persuaded?
GORGIAS: Just so.
SOCRATES: Shall we then assume two sorts of persuasion,--one which is the
source of belief without knowledge, as the other is of knowledge?
GORGIAS: By all means.
SOCRATES: And which sort of persuasion does rhetoric create in courts of
law and other assemblies about the just and unjust, the sort of persuasion
which gives belief without knowledge, or that which gives knowledge?
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Rescue by Joseph Conrad: spite of herself was so profoundly vivid that its clearness
seemed to Lingard to throw all his past life into shade.--"I
don't feel faint. It isn't that at all," she declared in a
perfectly calm voice. It seemed to Lingard as cold as ice.
"Very well," he agreed with a resigned smile. "But you just catch
hold of that rail, please, before I let you go." She, too, forced
a smile on her lips.
"What incredulity," she remarked, and for a time made not the
slightest movement. At last, as if making a concession, she
rested the tips of her fingers on the rail. Lingard gradually
removed his arm. "And pray don't look upon me as a conventional
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