| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from On Horsemanship by Xenophon: him leap. As soon as he is accustomed to leap in this way you may
mount him and put him first at smaller and then at larger trenches. At
the moment of the spring be ready to apply the spur; and so too, when
training him to leap up and leap down, you should touch him with the
spur at the critical instant. In the effort to perform any of these
actions with the whole body, the horse will certainly perform them
with more safety to himself and to his rider than he will, if his
hind-quarters lag, in taking a ditch or fence, or in making an upward
spring or downward jump.[4]
[4] Lit. "in making these jumps, springs, and leaps across or up or
down."
On Horsemanship |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Spirit of the Border by Zane Grey: several times, evidently enumerating how many white men he had seen.
"Here--when--high--sun."
With that he bounded lightly past them, and loped off with an even, swinging
stride.
"What did he mean?" asked Jim, almost sure he had not heard the runner aright.
"He meant that a party of white men are approaching, and will be here by noon.
I never knew an Indian runner to carry unreliable information. We have joyful
news, both in regard to your brother, and the Village of Peace. Let us go in
to tell the others."
The Huron runner's report proved to be correct. Shortly before noon signals
from Indian scouts proclaimed the approach of a band of white men. Evidently
The Spirit of the Border |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from An Inland Voyage by Robert Louis Stevenson: institutions, as they call them. Much more likely it is because
there are so few people really poor, that the whiners are not
enough to keep each other in countenance.
The people on the barge were delighted to hear that I admired their
state. They understood perfectly well, they told me, how Monsieur
envied them. Without doubt Monsieur was rich; and in that case he
might make a canal boat as pretty as a villa - JOLI COMME UN
CHATEAU. And with that they invited me on board their own water
villa. They apologised for their cabin; they had not been rich
enough to make it as it ought to be.
'The fire should have been here, at this side.' explained the
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