| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Betty Zane by Zane Grey: pointing eastward he said: "Home."
The intelligent animal understood perfectly. His duty was to get that warning
home. His clear brown eyes as much as said: "I will not fail." He wagged his
tail, licked the hunter's hand, bounded away and disappeared in the forest.
Wetzel rested easier in mind. He knew the dog would stop for nothing, and that
he stood a far better chance of reaching the Fort in safety than did he
himself.
With a lurid light in his eyes Wetzel now turned to the Indians. He would
never leave that spot without sending a leaden messenger into the heart of
someone in that camp. Glancing on all sides he at length selected a place
where it was possible he might approach near enough to the camp to get a shot.
Betty Zane |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The American by Henry James: still soft and deep, in spite of great antiquity, on the floor,
and portraits of each of Madame de Bellegarde's children,
at the age of ten, suspended against an old screen of red silk.
The room was illumined, exactly enough for conversation, by half
a dozen candles, placed in odd corners, at a great distance apart.
In a deep armchair, near the fire, sat an old lady in black;
at the other end of the room another person was seated at the piano,
playing a very expressive waltz. In this latter person Newman
recognized the young Marquise de Bellegarde.
Valentin presented his friend, and Newman walked up
to the old lady by the fire and shook hands with her.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Apology by Plato: The answer begins by clearing up a confusion. In the representations of
the Comic poets, and in the opinion of the multitude, he had been
identified with the teachers of physical science and with the Sophists.
But this was an error. For both of them he professes a respect in the open
court, which contrasts with his manner of speaking about them in other
places. (Compare for Anaxagoras, Phaedo, Laws; for the Sophists, Meno,
Republic, Tim., Theaet., Soph., etc.) But at the same time he shows that
he is not one of them. Of natural philosophy he knows nothing; not that he
despises such pursuits, but the fact is that he is ignorant of them, and
never says a word about them. Nor is he paid for giving instruction--that
is another mistaken notion:--he has nothing to teach. But he commends
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