| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Anabasis by Xenophon: years before having to move once more, to settle
in Corinth. He died in 354 B.C.
The Anabasis is his story of the march to Persia
to aid Cyrus, who enlisted Greek help to try and
take the throne from Artaxerxes, and the ensuing
return of the Greeks, in which Xenophon played a
leading role. This occurred between 401 B.C. and
March 399 B.C.
PREPARER'S NOTE
This was typed from Dakyns' series, "The Works of Xenophon," a
four-volume set. The complete list of Xenophon's works (though
Anabasis |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Master and Man by Leo Tolstoy: 'Go on in front!' he cried.
Petrushka kneeling in his low sledge started his horse.
Mukhorty, who had been neighing for some time past, now
scenting a mare ahead of him started after her, and they drove
out into the street. They drove again through the outskirts of
the village and along the same road, past the yard where the
frozen linen had hung (which, however, was no longer to be
seen), past the same barn, which was now snowed up almost to
the roof and from which the snow was still endlessly pouring
past the same dismally moaning, whistling, and swaying willows,
and again entered into the sea of blustering snow raging from
Master and Man |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft: noted on the distant hills. In Auckland I learned that Johansen
had returned with yellow hair turned white after a perfunctory
and inconclusive questioning at Sydney, and had thereafter sold
his cottage in West Street and sailed with his wife to his old
home in Oslo. Of his stirring experience he would tell his friends
no more than he had told the admiralty officials, and all they
could do was to give me his Oslo address.
After that I went
to Sydney and talked profitlessly with seamen and members of the
vice-admiralty court. I saw the Alert, now sold and in commercial
use, at Circular Quay in Sydney Cove, but gained nothing from
Call of Cthulhu |
