| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Bab:A Sub-Deb, Mary Roberts Rinehart by Mary Roberts Rinehart: now he considers that we are engaged, and--and he insists on marrying me."
"That," he said, "is realy easy to understand. I don't blame him at
all. He is clearly a person of diszernment."
"Of course," I said bitterly, "you would be on HIS side. Every one is."
"But the point is this," he went on. "If you made him up out of the
whole cloth, as it were, and there was no such Person, how can
there be such a Person? I am merely asking to get it all clear in
my head. It sounds so reasonable when you say it, but there seems
to be something left out."
"I don't know how he can be, but he is," I said, hopelessly. "And
he is exactly like his picture."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Euthyphro by Plato: hearing excites surprise: he says that I am a poet or maker of gods, and
that I invent new gods and deny the existence of old ones; this is the
ground of his indictment.
EUTHYPHRO: I understand, Socrates; he means to attack you about the
familiar sign which occasionally, as you say, comes to you. He thinks that
you are a neologian, and he is going to have you up before the court for
this. He knows that such a charge is readily received by the world, as I
myself know too well; for when I speak in the assembly about divine things,
and foretell the future to them, they laugh at me and think me a madman.
Yet every word that I say is true. But they are jealous of us all; and we
must be brave and go at them.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: deterioration. I, myself, still held some curious notions about
the traditional "soul" of man, and felt an awe at the secrets
that might be told by one returning from the dead. I wondered
what sights this placid youth might have seen in inaccessible
spheres, and what he could relate if fully restored to life. But
my wonder was not overwhelming, since for the most part I shared
the materialism of my friend. He was calmer than I as he forced
a large quantity of his fluid into a vein of the body’s arm, immediately
binding the incision securely.
The waiting was gruesome, but
West never faltered. Every now and then he applied his stethoscope
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