| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis: that was an offer to marry me. You can imagine
that I was surprised as well as angry--I was
perplexed.
"'But I AM married!' I cried. The idea that any
of my own people, or any one whom I had known at
home, would think I wasn't married was too much
for me to take in all at once.
"'You THINK you are,' said Prentiss McMakin,
with a smile.
"In spite of myself my breath stopped. It was
as if a chilly hand had taken hold of my heart.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Plutarch's Lives by A. H. Clough: of his body, he brought it in time to be healthful, and capable
of supporting many great fatigues and trials. His father's
house he made over to his brother, living himself near the
Palatine hill, that he might not give the trouble of long
journeys to those that made suit to him. And, indeed, there
were not fewer daily appearing at his door, to do their court to
him, than there were that came to Crassus for his riches, or to
Pompey for his power amongst the soldiers, these being at that
time the two men of the greatest repute and influence in Rome.
Nay, even Pompey himself used to pay court to Cicero, and
Cicero's public actions did much to establish Pompey's authority
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Crito by Plato: holds also?
CRITO: Yes, it does.
SOCRATES: From these premisses I proceed to argue the question whether I
ought or ought not to try and escape without the consent of the Athenians:
and if I am clearly right in escaping, then I will make the attempt; but if
not, I will abstain. The other considerations which you mention, of money
and loss of character and the duty of educating one's children, are, I
fear, only the doctrines of the multitude, who would be as ready to restore
people to life, if they were able, as they are to put them to death--and
with as little reason. But now, since the argument has thus far prevailed,
the only question which remains to be considered is, whether we shall do
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