| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Redheaded Outfield by Zane Grey: quickly, betraying a knowledge of his record
that surprised and pleased him. ``Mr. Wayne,
I was at the Polo Grounds on June fifteenth.''
Her white hand lightly touched the Princeton
pin at her neck. Wayne roused suddenly out of
his trance. The girl was a Princeton girl! The
gleam of her golden hair, the flash of her blue
eyes, became clear in sight.
``I'm very pleased to hear it,'' he replied.
``It was a great game, Mr. Wayne, and you may
well be proud of your part in winning it. I
The Redheaded Outfield |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson: means."
"I am no conjurer, Mr. Riach," said the captain.
"Give me leave, sir" said Riach; "you've a good head upon your
shoulders, and a good Scotch tongue to ask with; but I will leave
you no manner of excuse; I want that boy taken out of this hole
and put in the forecastle."
"What ye may want, sir, is a matter of concern to nobody but
yoursel'," returned the captain; "but I can tell ye that which is
to be. Here he is; here he shall bide."
"Admitting that you have been paid in a proportion," said the
other, "I will crave leave humbly to say that I have not. Paid I
Kidnapped |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Apology by Xenophon: once he had decided that death was better for him than life, just as
in the old days he had never harshly opposed himself to the good
things of life morosely,[60] so even in face of death he showed no
touch of weakness, but with gaiety welcomed death's embrace, and
discharged life's debt.
[58] Lit. "dear to the gods"; "highly favoured."
[59] Cf. Hom. "Od." xii. 341, {pantes men stugeroi thanatoi deiloisi
brotoisin}.
[60] {prosantes}, i.e. "he faced death boldly as he had encountered
life's blessings blandly." "As he had been no stoic to repudiate
life's blessings, so he was no coward to," etc.
The Apology |
