| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Plutarch's Lives by A. H. Clough: handicrafts. By this time almost all the allies were risen, but of
the Lacedaemonians not a man, they being by law forbidden to learn
any mechanical business; and now Agesilaus laughed and said, "You
see, my friends, how many more soldiers we send out than you do."
When he brought back his army from Boeotia through Megara, as he
was going up to the magistrate's office in the Acropolis, he was
suddenly seized with pain and cramp in his sound leg, and great
swelling and inflammation ensued. He was treated by a Syracusan
physician, who let him blood below the ankle; this soon eased his
pain, but then the blood could not be stopped, till the loss of it
brought on fainting and swooning; at length, with much trouble, he
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Falk by Joseph Conrad: instance--felt he would like to avenge them. But
what if--said I--there had not been any? They
might have died as it were, naturally--of starva-
tion. He shuddered. But to be eaten--after
death! To be devoured! He gave another deep
shudder, and asked suddenly, "Do you think it
is true?"
His indignation and his personality together
would have been enough to spoil the reality of the
most authentic thing. When I looked at him I
doubted the story--but the remembrance of Falk's
Falk |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Reminiscences of Tolstoy by Leo Tolstoy: babies, or to copy out something she had not finished overnight;
and till three or four in the afternoon silence would reign in
the house.
Then my father would come out of his study and go off for
his afternoon's exercise. Sometimes he would take a dog and a
gun, sometimes ride, and sometimes merely go for a walk to the
imperial wood.
At five the big bell that hung on the broken bough of an old
elm-tree in front of the house would ring and we would all run to
wash our hands and collect for dinner.
He was very hungry, and ate voraciously of whatever turned
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