| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Euthyphro by Plato: than Daedalus who makes them go round in a circle, and he is yourself; for
the argument, as you will perceive, comes round to the same point. Were we
not saying that the holy or pious was not the same with that which is loved
of the gods? Have you forgotten?
EUTHYPHRO: I quite remember.
SOCRATES: And are you not saying that what is loved of the gods is holy;
and is not this the same as what is dear to them--do you see?
EUTHYPHRO: True.
SOCRATES: Then either we were wrong in our former assertion; or, if we
were right then, we are wrong now.
EUTHYPHRO: One of the two must be true.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: fortune in scintillating gems which had aroused the
cupidity of his chief and placed the sentence of death
upon the head of the lieutenant.
With the escape of the Arabs the great apes had turned
their attention to their fallen comrades. One was
dead, but another and the great white ape still
breathed. The hairy monsters gathered about these two,
grumbling and muttering after the fashion of their kind.
Tarzan was the first to regain consciousness. Sitting
up, he looked about him. Blood was flowing from a
wound in his shoulder. The shock had thrown him down
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini: to him simply and unaffectedly as with an equal. The thing went to
his head a little, and disturbed certain republican notions which
he had hitherto conceived himself to have thoroughly digested.
The carriage drew up at the barrier, checked there by a picket of
the National Guard posted before the iron gates.
The sergeant in command strode to the door of the vehicle. The
Countess put her head from the window.
"The barrier is closed, madame," she was curtly informed.
"Closed!" she echoed. The thing was incredible. "But... but do
you mean that we cannot pass?"
Not unless you have a permit, madame." The sergeant leaned
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