| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy: them. He had to break the grating, but there
was no tool to do it with. Vassily began to look
around him, and chanced on a piece of plank with
a sharp edge; armed with that weapon he tried
to loosen the bricks which held the grating. He
worked a long time at that task. The cock
crowed for the second time, but the grating still
held. At last he had loosened one side; and then
he pushed the plank under the loosened end and
pressed with all his force. The grating gave way
completely, but at that moment one of the bricks
The Forged Coupon |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Young Forester by Zane Grey: his arms long, his hands enormous. His buckskin shirt attracted my
attention to his other clothes, which looked like leather overalls or heavy
canvas. A belt carried a huge knife and a number of shells of large
caliber; the Winchester he had was exceedingly long and heavy, and of an
old pattern. The look of him brought back my old fancy of Wetzel or Kit
Carson.
"So I'm lost," I concluded, "and don't know what to do. I daren't try to
find the sawmill. I won't go back to Holston just yet."
"An' why not, youngster? 'Pears to me you'd better make tracks from
Penetier."
I told him why, at which he laughed.
The Young Forester |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Charmides by Plato: good?
That appears to me to be as you say.
And the inference is that temperance cannot be modesty--if temperance is a
good, and if modesty is as much an evil as a good?
All that, Socrates, appears to me to be true; but I should like to know
what you think about another definition of temperance, which I just now
remember to have heard from some one, who said, 'That temperance is doing
our own business.' Was he right who affirmed that?
You monster! I said; this is what Critias, or some philosopher has told
you.
Some one else, then, said Critias; for certainly I have not.
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