| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from An International Episode by Henry James: in Boston 'thoughtful.'"
"A rum sort of girl for Lambeth to get hold of!" his lordship's
kinsman privately reflected.
"I really believe," Mrs. Westgate continued, "that the most charming
girl in the world is a Boston superstructure upon a New York fonds;
or perhaps a New York superstructure upon a Boston fonds. At any rate,
it's the mixture," said Mrs. Westgate, who continued to give Percy
Beaumont a great deal of information.
Lord Lambeth got into a little basket phaeton with Bessie Alden,
and she drove him down the long avenue, whose extent he had
measured on foot a couple of hours before, into the ancient town,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lysis by Plato: And also the vessel which contains the wine?
Certainly.
But does he therefore value the three measures of wine, or the earthen
vessel which contains them, equally with his son? Is not this rather the
true state of the case? All his anxiety has regard not to the means which
are provided for the sake of an object, but to the object for the sake of
which they are provided. And although we may often say that gold and
silver are highly valued by us, that is not the truth; for there is a
further object, whatever it may be, which we value most of all, and for the
sake of which gold and all our other possessions are acquired by us. Am I
not right?
Lysis |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Glasses by Henry James: who limped and lurched, with nothing of him left in the same
position as before. The tremendous cleverness, the literary
society, the political ambition, the Bournemouth sisters all seemed
to flop with his every movement a little nearer to the floor. I
hadn't had an Oxford training and I had never encountered the great
man at whose feet poor Dawling had most submissively sat and who
had addressed him his most destructive sniffs; but I remember
asking myself how effectively this privilege had supposed itself to
prepare him for the career on which my friend appeared now to have
embarked. I remember too making up my mind about the cleverness,
which had its uses and I suppose in impenetrable shades even its
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