| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: manufacturer and an heiress, and she sent for me. When I got to
Rome the girl was gone. Last winter I was all in - social
secretary to an Englishman, a wholesale grocer with a new title,
but we had a row, and I came home. I went out to the Heaton boys'
ranch in Wyoming, and met Bronson there. He lent me money, and
I've been doing his dirty work ever since."
Sullivan got up then and walked slowly forward and back as he
talked, his eyes on the faded pattern of the office rug.
"If you want to live in hell," he said savagely, "put yourself in
another man's power. Bronson got into trouble, forging John
Gilmore's name to those notes, and in some way he learned that a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Parmenides by Plato: Pythodorus, Socrates, Zeno, Parmenides, Aristoteles.
Cephalus rehearses a dialogue which is supposed to have been narrated in
his presence by Antiphon, the half-brother of Adeimantus and Glaucon, to
certain Clazomenians.
We had come from our home at Clazomenae to Athens, and met Adeimantus and
Glaucon in the Agora. Welcome, Cephalus, said Adeimantus, taking me by the
hand; is there anything which we can do for you in Athens?
Yes; that is why I am here; I wish to ask a favour of you.
What may that be? he said.
I want you to tell me the name of your half brother, which I have
forgotten; he was a mere child when I last came hither from Clazomenae, but
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Karl Marx: to draw fresh strength from the earth, and again, to rise up against
them in more gigantic stature; constantly recoil in fear before the
undefined monster magnitude of their own objects--until finally that
situation is created which renders all retreat impossible, and the
conditions themselves cry out:
"Hic Rhodus, hic salta !" [#2 Here is Rhodes, leap here! An allusion to
Aesop's Fables.]
Every observer of average intelligence; even if he failed to follow step
by step the course of French development, must have anticipated that an
unheard of fiasco was in store for the revolution. It was enough to
hear the self-satisfied yelpings of victory wherewith the Messieurs
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