| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Desert Gold by Zane Grey: Yaqui, however, found ground that his horse covered at a swift walk.
But there was only an hour, perhaps, of this comparatively easy
going. Then the Yaqui led them into a zone of craters. The top of
the earth seemed to have been blown out in holes from a few rods
in width to large craters, some shallow, others deep, and all red
as fire. Yaqui circled close to abysses which yawned sheer from
a level surface, and he appeared always to be turning upon his
course to avoid them.
The plateau had now a considerable dip to the west. Gale marked
the slow heave and ripple of the ocean of lava to the south, where
high, rounded peaks marked the center of this volcanic region. The
Desert Gold |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The American by Henry James: harmonized with his relish for bold processes, and made hospitality seem
more active and more to the purpose. A few evenings before the occasion
of which I speak he had invited several ladies and gentlemen to the opera
to listen to Madame Alboni--a party which included Miss Dora Finch.
It befell, however, that Miss Dora Finch, sitting near Newman in the box,
discoursed brilliantly, not only during the entr'actes, but during many of
the finest portions of the performance, so that Newman had really come away
with an irritated sense that Madame Alboni had a thin, shrill voice, and that
her musical phrase was much garnished with a laugh of the giggling order.
After this he promised himself to go for a while to the opera alone.
When the curtain had fallen upon the first act of "Don Giovanni"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Memorabilia by Xenophon: fortune of those we love both wear the same expression?
By no means (he answered); at the thought of good we are radiant, at
that of evil a cloud hangs on the brow.
Soc. Then here again are looks with it is possible to represent?
Parrh. Decidedly.
Soc. Furthermore, as through some chink or crevice, there pierces
through the countenance of a man, through the very posture of his body
as he stands or moves, a glimpse of his nobility and freedom, or again
of something in him low and grovelling--the calm of self-restraint,
and wisdom, or the swagger of insolence and vulgarity?
You are right (he answered).
The Memorabilia |
