| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from When a Man Marries by Mary Roberts Rinehart: smell like dog soap for a month afterward, as a result of
disinfection.'"
We sat in dead silence for a minute. Then:
"Perhaps it is true," I said. "Not of you, Jim--but some one may
have tried to get out that way. In fact, I think it extremely
likely."
"Who? Flannigan? You couldn't drive him out. He's having the time
of his life. Do you suspect me?"
"Come away and don't fight," Anne broke in pacifically. "You will
have to have luncheon sent in, Jimmy; nobody has ordered anything
from the shops, and I feel like old Mother Hubbard."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Eryxias by Platonic Imitator: that the same thing can be at one time useful and at another useless for
the production of the same result?
ERYXIAS: I cannot say more than that if we require the same thing to
produce the same result, then it seems to me to be useful; if not, not.
SOCRATES: Then if without the aid of fire we could make a brazen statue,
we should not want fire for that purpose; and if we did not want it, it
would be useless to us? And the argument applies equally in other cases.
ERYXIAS: Clearly.
SOCRATES: And therefore conditions which are not required for the
existence of a thing are not useful for the production of it?
ERYXIAS: Of course not.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: CHAPTER 18
For a little time there was a pause of deep silence, during which
the fluttering leaves came drifting down from the broken arbor
above.
It was the Lady Anne who first spoke. "Who art thou, and whence
comest thou?" said she, tremulously.
Then Myles gathered himself up sheepishly. "My name is Myles
Falworth," said he, "and I am one of the squires of the body."
"Oh! aye!" said the Lady Alice, suddenly. "Me thought I knew thy
face. Art thou not the young man that I have seen in Lord
George's train?"
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