| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from In a German Pension by Katherine Mansfield: giving him a little pull here, a little tug there. "Rosa, come and look at
your father."
Herr Brechenmacher strode up and down the kitchen, was helped on with his
coat, then waited while the Frau lighted the lantern.
"Now, then--finished at last! Come along."
"The lamp, Rosa," warned the Frau, slamming the front door behind them.
Snow had not fallen all day; the frozen ground was slippery as an icepond.
She had not been out of the house for weeks past, and the day had so
flurried her that she felt muddled and stupid--felt that Rosa had pushed
her out of the house and her man was running away from her.
"Wait, wait!" she cried.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Eryxias by Platonic Imitator: his merits as an imitator of Plato.
ERYXIAS
by
Platonic Imitator (see Appendix II above)
Translated by Benjamin Jowett
PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Socrates, Eryxias, Erasistratus, Critias.
SCENE: The portico of a temple of Zeus.
It happened by chance that Eryxias the Steirian was walking with me in the
Portico of Zeus the Deliverer, when there came up to us Critias and
Erasistratus, the latter the son of Phaeax, who was the nephew of
Erasistratus. Now Erasistratus had just arrived from Sicily and that part
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: "It's my last trip in this car," he remarked heavily. "There's
something wrong with that berth. Last trip the woman in it took an
overdose of some sleeping stuff, and we found her, jes' like that,
dead! And it ain't more'n three months now since there was twins
born in that very spot. No, sir, it ain't natural."
At that moment a thin man with prominent eyes and a spare grayish
goatee creaked up the aisle and paused beside me.
"Porter sick?" he inquired, taking in with a professional eye the
porter's horror-struck face, my own excitement and the slightly
gaping curtains of lower ten. He reached for the darky's pulse and
pulled out an old-fashioned gold watch.
The Man in Lower Ten |
