| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: 'Would that she had left us to die in peace, husband. Well, so be
it, for your sake I will put on these garments of a drab. But how
shall we escape out of this place and the camp? Will the door be
opened to us, and the guards removed, and if we pass them, can you
walk, husband?'
'The doors will not be opened, lady,' said Marina, 'for those wait
without, who will see that they are locked when I have passed them.
But there will be nothing to fear from the guard, trust to me for
it. See, the bars of this window are but of wood, that sword will
soon sever them, and if you are seen you must play the part of a
drunken soldier being guided to his quarters by a woman. For the
Montezuma's Daughter |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Republic by Plato: direction: (8) that the Pythagorean triangle is called also the figure of
marriage (Greek).
But though agreeing with Dr. Donaldson thus far, I see no reason for
supposing, as he does, that the first or perfect number is the world, the
human or imperfect number the state; nor has he given any proof that the
second harmony is a cube. Nor do I think that (Greek) can mean 'two
incommensurables,' which he arbitrarily assumes to be 2 and 3, but rather,
as the preceding clause implies, (Greek), i.e. two square numbers based
upon irrational diameters of a figure the side of which is 5 = 50 x 2.
The greatest objection to the translation is the sense given to the words
(Greek), 'a base of three with a third added to it, multiplied by 5.' In
The Republic |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson: that's ae thing certain sure. Dod, sir, I'm a lone man! If I was to
tak her in, its highly possible the hellicat would try and gar me marry
her when he turned up."
"Enough of this talk," said I. "I will take the young leddy among
better friends. Give me, pen, ink, and paper, and I will leave here
for James More the address of my correspondent in Leyden. He can
inquire from me where he is to seek his daughter."
This word I wrote and sealed; which while I was doing, Sprott of his
own motion made a welcome offer, to charge himself with Miss Drummond's
mails, and even send a porter for them to the inn. I advanced him to
that effect a dollar or two to be a cover, and he gave me an
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