| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Hellenica by Xenophon: Arcadia and Laconia ("in the direction of Mount Lycaeum," Thuc. v.
54). See Leake, "Morea," ii. 322; also "Peloponn." p. 248, in
which place he corrects his former view as to the situation of
Leuctrum and the Maleatid.
Oeum or Ium, the chief town of the Sciritis, probably stood in the
Klisura or series of narrow passes through the watershed of the
mountains forming the natural boundary between Laconia and Arcadia
(in the direct line north from Sparta to Tegea), "Dict. of Anc.
Geog." s.v. Leake says ("Morea," iii. 19, 30 foll.) near the
modern village of Kolina; Baedeker ("Greece," p. 269) says perhaps
at Palaeogoulas.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: my office. I had spent the morning putting my affairs in shape,
and in a trip to the stable. The afternoon would see me either a
free man or a prisoner for an indefinite length of time, and, in
spite of Johnson's promise to produce Sullivan, I was more prepared
for the latter than the former.
Blobs was watching for me outside the door, and it was clear that
he was in a state of excitement bordering on delirium. He did
nothing, however, save to tip me a wink that meant "As man to man,
I'm for you." I was too much engrossed either to reprove him or
return the courtesy, but I heard him follow me down the hall to the
small room where we keep outgrown lawbooks, typewriter supplies and,
The Man in Lower Ten |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: There was a word wrong, but she had lost the right one, and much
clearly depended on her finding it again. The girl, therefore,
sufficiently estimating the affluence of customers and the
distraction of Mr. Buckton and the counter-clerk, took the jump and
gave it. "Isn't it Cooper's?"
It was as if she had bodily leaped--cleared the top of the cage and
alighted on her interlocutress. "Cooper's?"--the stare was
heightened by a blush. Yes, she had made Juno blush.
This was all the greater reason for going on. "I mean instead of
Burfield's."
Our young friend fairly pitied her; she had made her in an instant
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