| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Moral Emblems by Robert Louis Stevenson: He was the Buonaparte of Builders.
The foreman, a desponding creature,
Demurred to here and there a feature:
'For surely, sir - with your permeession -
Bricks here, sir, in the main parteetion. . . . '
The builder goggled, gulped, and stared,
The foreman's services were spared.
Thin would not count among his minions
A man of Wesleyan opinions.
'Money is money,' so he said.
'Crescents are crescents, trade is trade.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Polity of Athenians and Lacedaemonians by Xenophon: the art. So to steal as many cheeses as possible [off the shrine of
Orthia[17]] was a feat to be encouraged; but, at the same moment,
others were enjoined to scourge the thief, which would point a moral
not obscurely, that by pain endured for a brief season a man may earn
the joyous reward of lasting glory.[18] Herein, too, it is plainly
shown that where speed is requisite the sluggard will win for himself
much trouble and scant good.
[17] I.e. "Artemis of the Steep"--a title connecting the goddess with
Mount Orthion or Orthosion. See Pausan. VIII. xxiii. 1; and for
the custom, see Themistius, "Or." 21, p. 250 A. The words have
perhaps got out of their right place. See Schneider's Index, s.v.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Bucky O'Connor by William MacLeod Raine: throwing and to sell medicine to the audience. Lots of people
would buy because I was such a morsel of a creature, and I
suppose he found me a drawing card. We moved all over the country
for years. I hated the life. But what could I do?"
"You poor little lamb," murmured the man. "And when did you find
out who you were?"
"I heard you talking to him the night you took him back to
Epitaph, and then I began to piece things together. You remember
you went over the whole story with him again just before we
reached the town."
"And you knew it was you I was talking about?"
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