| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: a mean between long and short, neither too flexible nor too stiff;[8]
flanks, a mean between large and small; the hips (or "couples")
rounded, fleshy behind, not tied together above, but firmly knitted on
the inside;[9] the lower or under part of the belly[10] slack, and the
belly itself the same, that is, hollow and sunken; tail long,
straight, and pointed;[11] thighs (i.e. hams) stout and compact;
shanks (i.e. lower thighs) long, round, and solid; hind-legs much
longer than the fore-legs, and relatively lean; feet round and cat-
like.[12]
[1] Pollux, v. 7; Arrian, "Cyn." iv.
[2] {meteora}, prominent. ?See Sturz, s.v.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Chance by Joseph Conrad: So he did not understand the aggrieved attitude of the mate--or
rather he understood it obscurely as a result of simple causes which
did not seem to him adequate. He would have dismissed all this out
of his mind with a contemptuous: 'What the devil do I care?' if the
captain's wife herself had not been so young. To see her the first
time had been something of a shock to him. He had some preconceived
ideas as to captain's wives which, while he did not believe the
testimony of his eyes, made him open them very wide. He had stared
till the captain's wife noticed it plainly and turned her face away.
Captain's wife! That girl covered with rugs in a long chair.
Captain's . . . ! He gasped mentally. It had never occurred to him
Chance |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Idylls of the King by Alfred Tennyson: "Whence and what art thou?" and even as he spoke
Fell into dust, and disappeared, and I
Was left alone once more, and cried in grief,
"Lo, if I find the Holy Grail itself
And touch it, it will crumble into dust."
`And thence I dropt into a lowly vale,
Low as the hill was high, and where the vale
Was lowest, found a chapel, and thereby
A holy hermit in a hermitage,
To whom I told my phantoms, and he said:
`"O son, thou hast not true humility,
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