| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Essays & Lectures by Oscar Wilde: family is the ultimate unit of society, though, as I have said, an
inductive study of primitive races, or even the accounts given of
them by Herodotus, would have shown them that the [Greek text which
cannot be reproduced] of a personal household, to use Plato's
expression, is really a most complex notion appearing always in a
late stage of civilisation, along with recognition of private
property and the rights of individualism.
Philology also, which in the hands of modern investigators has
proved such a splendid instrument of research, was in ancient days
studied on principles too unscientific to be of much use.
Herodotus points out that the word ERIDANOS is essentially Greek in
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Heroes by Charles Kingsley: the left hand, and on the right hand, and went up and down,
till his head was dizzy; but all the while he held his clue.
For when he went in he had fastened it to a stone, and left
it to unroll out of his hand as he went on; and it lasted him
till he met the Minotaur, in a narrow chasm between black
cliffs.
And when he saw him he stopped awhile, for he had never seen
so strange a beast. His body was a man's: but his head was
the head of a bull; and his teeth were the teeth of a lion,
and with them he tore his prey. And when he saw Theseus he
roared, and put his head down, and rushed right at him.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Octopus by Frank Norris: remaining shells of the fabric of his being, the sham that had
stood already wonderfully long, cracked and collapsed.
"Was the Commission honestly elected?" insisted Garnett. "Were
the delegates--did you bribe the delegates?"
"We were obliged to shut our eyes to means," faltered Magnus.
"There was no other way to--" Then suddenly and with the last
dregs of his resolution, he concluded with: "Yes, I gave them two
thousand dollars each."
"Oh, hell! Oh, my God!" exclaimed Keast, sitting swiftly down
upon the ragged sofa.
There was a long silence. A sense of poignant embarrassment
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