| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Before Adam by Jack London: my meat-eating enemies. I was insane with love of her,
and with--anger, too, because she would not let me come
up with her. It was strange how this anger against her
seemed to be part of my desire for her.
As I have said, I forgot everything. In racing across
an open space I ran full tilt upon a colony of snakes.
They did not deter me. I was mad. They struck at me,
but I ducked and dodged and ran on. Then there was a
python that ordinarily would have sent me screeching to
a tree-top. He did run me into a tree; but the Swift
One was going out of sight, and I sprang back to the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from My Antonia by Willa Cather: I can make money and help her.'
`See that you don't forget to,' said Mrs. Harling sceptically,
as she took up her crocheting again and sent the hook in and out
with nimble fingers.
`No, 'm, I won't,' said Lena blandly. She took a few grains
of the popcorn we pressed upon her, eating them discreetly
and taking care not to get her fingers sticky.
Frances drew her chair up nearer to the visitor. `I thought
you were going to be married, Lena,' she said teasingly.
`Didn't I hear that Nick Svendsen was rushing you pretty hard?'
Lena looked up with her curiously innocent smile. `He did go with me quite
My Antonia |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Agesilaus by Xenophon: [35] Or, "But to pass on, he was already, may be, eighty years of age,
when it came under his observation. . . ."
[36] This same Tachos.
[37] See "Hell." VII. i. 36; iv. 9.
[38] I.e. "the army under Nectanebos." See Diod. xv. 92; Plut. "Ages."
xxxvii. (Clough, iv. 44 foll.)
[39] I.e. "Nectanebos and a certain Mendesian."
III
Such, then, is the chronicle of this man's achievements, or of such of
them as were wrought in the presence of a thousand witnesses. Being of
this sort they have no need of further testimony; the mere recital of
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