| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Stories From the Old Attic by Robert Harris: argument. The old man listened seemingly more politely than
attentively as each gave a lengthy explanation of the dispute.
Finally the two looked to The Wise One for his decision, both of
them more confident than ever of being right. The Wise One reached
over to a vase sitting nearby and pulled out a rose. "Shall I hit
you with the bloom or with the stem?" he asked the couple.
"What are you talking about?" asked the young woman.
"It is written in the Book of Worn Out Sayings that 'in the rose
garden of life he who plucks thorns for his partner's bed is a fool.'"
"I don't understand," said the young man.
"Those who sell flowers put them in a pan of colored water and the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Polity of Athenians and Lacedaemonians by Xenophon: get in supplies from a thriving district. And if one may descend to
more trifling particulars, it is to this same lordship of the sea that
the Athenians owe the discovery, in the first place, of many of the
luxuries of life through intercourse with other countries. So that the
choice things of Sicily and Italy, of Cyprus and Egypt and Lydia, of
Pontus or Peloponnese, or wheresoever else it be, are all swept, as it
were, into one centre, and all owing, as I say, to their maritime
empire. And again, in process of listening to every form of speech,[5]
they have selected this from one place and that from another--for
themselves. So much so that while the rest of the Hellenes employ[6]
each pretty much their own peculiar mode of speech, habit of life, and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom by William and Ellen Craft: years of her servitude, she had been exposed to
the sun's rays in the hot climate of Louisiana, with
head and neck unsheltered, as is customary with
the female slaves, while labouring in the cotton or
the sugar field. Those parts of her person which
had been shielded from the sun were compara-
tively white.
Belmonte, the pretended owner of the girl, had
obtained possession of her by an act of sale from
John F. Miller, the planter in whose service
Salome's father died. This Miller was a man of
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