| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Miracle Mongers and Their Methods by Harry Houdini: The above is the method practiced by all the
Fire-Eaters, and absolutely no preparation is
necessary except that the tongue must be well
moistened with saliva.
Barnello once said, ``A person wishing to
become a Fire-Eater must make up his or her
mind to suffer a little at first from burns, as
there is no one who works at the business but
that gets burns either from carelessness or
from accident.''
This is verified by the following, which I
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne: fancy so much in the coach-yard but an hour before, - the very
sight of it stirr'd up a disagreeable sensation within me now; and
I thought 'twas a churlish beast into whose heart the idea could
first enter, to construct such a machine; nor had I much more
charity for the man who could think of using it.
I observed the lady was as little taken with it as myself: so Mons.
Dessein led us on to a couple of chaises which stood abreast,
telling us, as he recommended them, that they had been purchased by
my lord A. and B. to go the grand tour, but had gone no further
than Paris, so were in all respects as good as new. - They were too
good; - so I pass'd on to a third, which stood behind, and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Charmides by Plato: Plainly not.
Neither will he be able to distinguish the pretender in medicine from the
true physician, nor between any other true and false professor of
knowledge. Let us consider the matter in this way: If the wise man or any
other man wants to distinguish the true physician from the false, how will
he proceed? He will not talk to him about medicine; and that, as we were
saying, is the only thing which the physician understands.
True.
And, on the other hand, the physician knows nothing of science, for this
has been assumed to be the province of wisdom.
True.
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