| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling: wall - and then I bounced down into the garden, just behind Jerry,
with my hair full of bark. Imagine the situation!'
'Oh, I can!' Una laughed till she nearly fell off the stool.
'Dad said, "Phil - a - del - phia!" and Sir Arthur Wesley said,
"Good Ged" and Jerry put his foot on the pistol Rene had
dropped. But Rene was splendid. He never even looked at me. He
began to untwist Doctor Break's neckcloth as fast as he'd twisted
it, and asked him if he felt better.
'"What's happened? What's happened?" said Dad.
'"A fit!" said Rene. "I fear my confrere has had a fit. Do not be
alarmed. He recovers himself. Shall I bleed you a little, my dear
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Alcibiades I by Plato: just.
SOCRATES: He would not go to war, because it would be unlawful?
ALCIBIADES: Neither lawful nor honourable.
SOCRATES: Then you, too, would address them on principles of justice?
ALCIBIADES: Certainly.
SOCRATES: What, then, is justice but that better, of which I spoke, in
going to war or not going to war with those against whom we ought or ought
not, and when we ought or ought not to go to war?
ALCIBIADES: Clearly.
SOCRATES: But how is this, friend Alcibiades? Have you forgotten that you
do not know this, or have you been to the schoolmaster without my
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pericles by William Shakespeare: BOULT.
Master, I have gone through for this piece, you see: if you like
her, so; if not, I have lost my earnest.
BAWD.
Boult, has she any qualities?
BOULT.
She has a good face, speaks well, and has excellent clothes:
ther's no further necessity of qualities can make her be refused.
BAWD.
What is her price, Boult?
BOULT.
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