| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lysis by Plato: me?
Yes, he said.
And the more vain-glorious they are, the more difficult is the capture of
them?
I believe you.
What should you say of a hunter who frightened away his prey, and made the
capture of the animals which he is hunting more difficult?
He would be a bad hunter, undoubtedly.
Yes; and if, instead of soothing them, he were to infuriate them with words
and songs, that would show a great want of wit: do you not agree.
Yes.
Lysis |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Modeste Mignon by Honore de Balzac: all the anxious solicitude of a hopeless lover, a vassal ever ready to
die,--like the soldiers alone and abandoned in the snows of Russia,
who still cried out, "Long live the Emperor,"--he meditated how to
capture Modeste's secret for his own private knowledge. So thinking,
he followed his patrons to the Chalet that evening, with a cloud of
care upon his brow: for he knew it was most important to hide from all
these watchful eyes and ears the net, whatever it might be, in which
he should entrap his lady. It would have to be, he thought, by some
intercepted glance, some sudden start or quiver, as when a surgeon
lays his finger on a hidden sore. That evening Gobenheim did not
appear, and Butscha was Dumay's partner against Monsieur and Madame
Modeste Mignon |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Economist by Xenophon: rays, there can be nothing better than to plough the soil up with a
pair of oxen during mid-day in midsummer.
Isch. And if a gang of men set to, to break and make this fallow with
the mattock, it is transparent that their business is to separate the
quitch grass from the soil and keep them parted?
Soc. Just so!--to throw the quitch grass down to wither on the
surface, and to turn the soil up, so that the crude earth may have its
turn of baking.
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You see, Socrates (he said, continuing the conversation), we hold the
same opinion, both of us, concerning fallow.
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