| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Ann Veronica by H. G. Wells: things. You say I know nothing. That's probably true. But how
am I to know of things?"
"Some things I hope you may never know," he said.
"I'm not so sure. I want to know--just as much as I can."
"Tut!" he said, fuming, and put out his hand to the papers in the
pink tape.
"Well, I do. It's just that I want to say. I want to be a human
being; I want to learn about things and know about things, and
not to be protected as something too precious for life, cooped up
in one narrow little corner."
"Cooped up!" he cried. "Did I stand in the way of your going to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Symposium by Xenophon: thrown to catch them, as they fell, in perfect time.[13]
[13] "In time with the music and the measure of the dance."
Then Socrates: The girl's performance is one proof among a host of
others, sirs, that woman's nature is nowise inferior to man's. All she
wants is strength and judgment;[14] and that should be an
encouragement to those of you who have wives, to teach them whatever
you would have them know as your associates.[15]
[14] Reading, as vulg. {gnomes de kai iskhuos deitai}; al. continuing
{ouden} from the first half of the sentence, transl. "she has no
lack of either judgment or physical strength." Lange conj. {romes}
for {gnomes}, "all she needs is force and strength of body." See
The Symposium |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis: and making a fool of me, the whole way through.
As soon as I read it over careful I saw it wasn't
really praise, though there was a minute or two I
thought my recognition had come. But SHE don't
know it ain't serious from start to finish. SHE was
all-mighty pleased when that piece come out in
print. And I don't intend she ever shall know it
ain't real praise."
His wife was so proud when that piece come out
in that New York paper, he said, she cried over it.
She said now she was glad they had been doing
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