| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Beauty and The Beast by Bayard Taylor: not what, passed into his blood.
The young men had brought a fiddler from the village, and it was
not long before most of the company were treading the measures of
reels or cotillons on the grass. How merry and happy they all
were! How freely and unembarrassedly they moved and talked! By
and by all became involved in the dance, and Jacob, left alone and
unnoticed, drew nearer and nearer to the gay and beautiful life
from which he was expelled.
With a long-drawn scream of the fiddle the dance came to an end,
and the dancers, laughing, chattering, panting, and fanning
themselves, broke into groups and scattered over the enclosure
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: "We'll have something worse than death aboard us if we don't
get rid of this body before dark."
Wilson staggered up menacingly to prevent the contemplated act,
but when his comrade, Spider, took sides with Clayton and
Monsieur Thuran he gave up, and sat eying the corpse
hungrily as the three men, by combining their efforts,
succeeded in rolling it overboard.
All the balance of the day Wilson sat glaring at Clayton,
in his eyes the gleam of insanity. Toward evening, as the
sun was sinking into the sea, he commenced to chuckle and
mumble to himself, but his eyes never left Clayton.
The Return of Tarzan |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lysis by Plato: white lead, would they be really white, or would they only appear to be
white?
They would only appear to be white, he replied.
And yet whiteness would be present in them?
True.
But that would not make them at all the more white, notwithstanding the
presence of white in them--they would not be white any more than black?
No.
But when old age infuses whiteness into them, then they become assimilated,
and are white by the presence of white.
Certainly.
Lysis |
