| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Symposium by Xenophon: "from one point of agreement to another."
The Company, in chorus. Without a doubt (they answered, and the
formula, once started, was every time repeated by the company, full
chorus).
Soc. Are you agreed it is the business of a good go-between to make
him (or her) on whom he plies his art agreeable to those with
them?[91]
[91] Al. "their followers." See "Mem." II. vi. 36.
Omnes. Without a doubt.
Soc. And, further, that towards agreeableness, one step at any rate
consists in wearing a becoming fashion of the hair and dress?[92] Are
The Symposium |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Paradise Lost by John Milton: Rose a fresh fountain, and with many a rill
Watered the garden; thence united fell
Down the steep glade, and met the nether flood,
Which from his darksome passage now appears,
And now, divided into four main streams,
Runs diverse, wandering many a famous realm
And country, whereof here needs no account;
But rather to tell how, if Art could tell,
How from that sapphire fount the crisped brooks,
Rolling on orient pearl and sands of gold,
With mazy errour under pendant shades
Paradise Lost |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Bucky O'Connor by William MacLeod Raine: "You're calling this dance, son; it's your say-so, I guess," he
conceded.
"Keep still, or I'll shoot you full of holes," growled the
autocrat of the artillery.
"Why, sure! Ain't you the real thing in Jesse Jameses?" soothed
the sheriff.
At the sound of Collins' voice, the masked man had started
perceptibly, and his right hand had jumped forward an inch or two
to cover the speaker more definitely. Thereafter, no matter what
else engaged his attention, the gleaming eyes behind the red
bandanna never wandered for a moment from the big plainsman. He
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