| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Statesman by Plato: better go backwards, starting from the end. We just now parted off from
the weaving of clothes, the making of blankets, which differ from each
other in that one is put under and the other is put around: and these are
what I termed kindred arts.
YOUNG SOCRATES: I understand.
STRANGER: And we have subtracted the manufacture of all articles made of
flax and cords, and all that we just now metaphorically termed the sinews
of plants, and we have also separated off the process of felting and the
putting together of materials by stitching and sewing, of which the most
important part is the cobbler's art.
YOUNG SOCRATES: Precisely.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from 1492 by Mary Johntson: upon them, even fought with people who were Caribs, Caribals
or Cannibals. They had a dozen Caribs, men and
women, prisoners upon the _Marigalante_ that was the Admiral's
ship.
This group about Juan Lepe, survivor of La Navidad,
talked like seasoned finders and takers. For the most part
they were young men and hidalgos, fighters against the
Moors, released by the final conquest of those paynims, out
now for further wild adventure and for gold with which to
return, wealthy and still young, to Spanish country, Spanish
cities, Spanish women! They had the virtue and the vice
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: surface. Voices of men were also heard in stifled converse
below; it seemed as if the pursuers had not discovered the narrow
path which led to the top of the rock, or that, having discovered
it, the peril of the ascent, joined to the imperfect light, and
the uncertainty whether it might not be defended, made them
hesitate to attempt it.
At length a shadowy figure was seen, which raised itself up from
the abyss of darkness below, and, emerging into the pale
moonlight, began cautiously and slowly to ascend the rocky path.
The outline was so distinctly marked, that Captain Dalgetty could
discover not only the person of a Highlander, but the long gun
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