| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Turn of the Screw by Henry James: machicolated square tower that made me dizzy, her morning music,
her disposition to tell me so many more things than she asked,
rang out and led me on. I have not seen Bly since the day
I left it, and I daresay that to my older and more informed
eyes it would now appear sufficiently contracted. But as my
little conductress, with her hair of gold and her frock of blue,
danced before me round corners and pattered down passages,
I had the view of a castle of romance inhabited by a rosy sprite,
such a place as would somehow, for diversion of the young idea,
take all color out of storybooks and fairytales.
Wasn't it just a storybook over which I had fallen adoze
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Crito by Plato: off Sunium, as he is informed by his aged friend and contemporary Crito,
who visits him before the dawn has broken; he himself has been warned in a
dream that on the third day he must depart. Time is precious, and Crito
has come early in order to gain his consent to a plan of escape. This can
be easily accomplished by his friends, who will incur no danger in making
the attempt to save him, but will be disgraced for ever if they allow him
to perish. He should think of his duty to his children, and not play into
the hands of his enemies. Money is already provided by Crito as well as by
Simmias and others, and he will have no difficulty in finding friends in
Thessaly and other places.
Socrates is afraid that Crito is but pressing upon him the opinions of the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Redheaded Outfield by Zane Grey: last ditch. It was so splendid that almost
instantly it caught the antagonistic bleachers.
Wherever the tired Scott found renewed
strength and speed was a mystery. But he struck
out the hard-hitting Providence catcher and that
made the third out. The Stars could not score in
their half of the inning. Likewise the seventh
inning passed without a run for either side; only
the infield work of the Stars was something
superb. When the eighth inning ended, without a
tally for either team, the excitement grew tense.
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