| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: hair from her brow, came back into my life. She came riding down
a grass path in the thickets below Lady Grove, perched up on a
huge black horse, and the old Earl of Carnaby and Archie Garvell,
her half-brother, were with her. My uncle had been bothering me
about the Crest Hill hot-water pipes, and we were returning by a
path transverse to theirs and came out upon them suddenly. Old
Carnaby was trespassing on our ground, and so he hailed us in a
friendly fashion and pulled up to talk to us.
I didn't note Beatrice at all at first. I was interested in Lord
Carnaby, that remarkable vestige of his own brilliant youth. I
had heard of him, but never seen him. For a man of sixty-five
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from On Revenues by Xenophon: which I am acquainted, this is the only one in which no sort of
jealousy is felt at a further development of the industry.[4] I may go
a step farther; every proprietor of a farm will be able to tell you
exactly how many yoke of oxen are sufficient for the estate, and how
many farm hands. To send into the field more than the exact number
requisite every farmer would consider a dead loss.[5] But in silver
mining [operations] the universal complaint is the want of hands.
Indeed there is no analogy between this and other industries. With an
increase in the number of bronze-workers articles of bronze may become
so cheap that the bronze-worker has to retire from the field. And so
again with ironfounders. Or again, in a plethoric condition of the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King Lear by William Shakespeare: Fool. Mark it, nuncle.
Have more than thou showest,
Speak less than thou knowest,
Lend less than thou owest,
Ride more than thou goest,
Learn more than thou trowest,
Set less than thou throwest;
Leave thy drink and thy whore,
And keep in-a-door,
And thou shalt have more
Than two tens to a score.
King Lear |
