| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield: had imagined, apart from the others, and--William's heart leapt--she was
alone.
"Hallo, Isabel!" William stared. He thought she looked so beautiful that
he had to say something, "You look very cool."
"Do I?" said Isabel. "I don't feel very cool. Come along, your horrid old
train is late. The taxi's outside." She put her hand lightly on his arm
as they passed the ticket collector. "We've all come to meet you," she
said. "But we've left Bobby Kane at the sweet shop, to be called for."
"Oh!" said William. It was all he could say for the moment.
There in the glare waited the taxi, with Bill Hunt and Dennis Green
sprawling on one side, their hats tilted over their faces, while on the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: provinciam nostram atque Italiam; facerent, iis impedimentis quae secum
agere ac portare non poterant citra flumen Rhenum depositis custodiae [ex
suis] ac praesidio VI milia hominum una reliquerant. Hi post eorum obitum
multos annos a finitimis exagitati, cum alias bellum inferrent, alias
inlatum defenderent, consensu eorum omnium pace facta hunc sibi domicilio
locum delegerant.
Ac primo adventu exercitus nostri crebras ex oppido excursiones
faciebant parvulisque proeliis cum nostris contendebant; postea vallo
pedum XII in circuitu %XV% milium crebrisque castellis circummuniti oppido
sese continebant. Ubi vineis actis aggere extructo turrim procul
constitui viderunt, primum inridere ex muro atque increpitare vocibus,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Odyssey by Homer: nor feel any ruth in giving freely of others' goods, for
that each man has plenty by him.'
Then Odysseus of many counsels drew back and answered him:
'Lo now, I see thou hast not wisdom with thy beauty! From
out of thine own house thou wouldest not give even so much
as a grain of salt to thy suppliant, thou who now even at
another's board dost sit, and canst not find it in thy
heart to take of the bread and give it me, where there is
plenty to thy hand.'
He spake, and Antinous was mightily angered at heart, and
looked fiercely on him and spake winged words:
The Odyssey |
