| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Pupil by Henry James: finding fresh employment that resided for him in the grossness of
his having failed to pass his pupil.
"Oh we'll settle that. You used to talk about it," said Morgan.
"If we can only go all the rest's a detail."
"Talk about it as much as you like, but don't think you can attempt
it. Mr. Moreen would never consent - it would be so VERY hand-to-
mouth," Pemberton's hostess beautifully explained to him. Then to
Morgan she made it clearer: "It would destroy our peace, it would
break our hearts. Now that he's back it will be all the same
again. You'll have your life, your work and your freedom, and
we'll all be happy as we used to be. You'll bloom and grow
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Iliad by Homer: he had denied them, till presently the old knight Phoenix in his
great fear for the ships of the Achaeans, burst into tears and
said, "Noble Achilles, if you are now minded to return, and in
the fierceness of your anger will do nothing to save the ships
from burning, how, my son, can I remain here without you? Your
father Peleus bade me go with you when he sent you as a mere lad
from Phthia to Agamemnon. You knew nothing neither of war nor of
the arts whereby men make their mark in council, and he sent me
with you to train you in all excellence of speech and action.
Therefore, my son, I will not stay here without you--no, not
though heaven itself vouchsafe to strip my years from off me, and
The Iliad |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: foll.; Apollod. iii. 6; Strab. ix. 399, 404.
[14] Lit. "to be honoured ever living."
Peleus kindled in the gods desire to give him Thetis, and to hymn
their nuptials at the board of Cheiron.[15]
[15] For the marriage of Peleus and Thetis see Hom. "Il." xxiv. 61;
cf. Pope's rendering:
To grace those nuptials from the bright abode
Yourselves were present; when this minstrel god
(Well pleased to share the feast) amid the quire
Stood proud to hymn, and tune his youthful lyre
("Homer's Il." xxiv.)
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