| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Euthyphro by Plato: EUTHYPHRO: No, that is the reason.
SOCRATES: It is loved because it is holy, not holy because it is loved?
EUTHYPHRO: Yes.
SOCRATES: And that which is dear to the gods is loved by them, and is in a
state to be loved of them because it is loved of them?
EUTHYPHRO: Certainly.
SOCRATES: Then that which is dear to the gods, Euthyphro, is not holy, nor
is that which is holy loved of God, as you affirm; but they are two
different things.
EUTHYPHRO: How do you mean, Socrates?
SOCRATES: I mean to say that the holy has been acknowledged by us to be
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Ball at Sceaux by Honore de Balzac: the best matches which Paris and the various deputations from
departments could offer. The splendor of his entertainments, the
luxury of his dining-room, and his dinners, fragrant with truffles,
rivaled the famous banquets by which the ministers of that time
secured the vote of their parliamentary recruits.
The Honorable Deputy was consequently pointed at as a most influential
corrupter of the legislative honesty of the illustrious Chamber that
was dying as it would seem of indigestion. A whimsical result! his
efforts to get his daughter married secured him a splendid popularity.
He perhaps found some covert advantage in selling his truffles twice
over. This accusation, started by certain mocking Liberals, who made
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: himself. She knew quite well that the coldness that had clutched
her heart when he gave his name had had nothing to do with fear.
There had been chagrin, disappointment, but nothing in the least
like the terror she might have expected. The simple truth was
that he had seemed so much a man that it had hurt her to find him
also a wild beast.
Deep in her heart she resented the conviction forced upon her.
Reckless he undoubtedly was, at odds with the law surely, but it
was hard to admit that attractive personality to be the mask of
fiendish cruelty and sinister malice. And yet--the facts spoke
for themselves. He had not even attempted a denial. Still there
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