| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Country Doctor by Honore de Balzac: engaged him as secretary to the mayor; as it happened, I was lucky
enough to find a wife for him, and his dreams of happiness were
fulfilled.
"Both of these new families needed houses, as well as the basket-maker
and twenty-two others from the cretin village, soon afterwards twelve
more households were established in the place. The workers in each of
these families were at once producers and consumers. They were masons,
carpenters, joiners, slaters, blacksmiths, and glaziers; and there was
work enough to last them for a long time, for had they not their own
houses to build when they had finished those for other people?
Seventy, in fact, were build in the Commune during my second year of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: and horses. We are to have some dinner, and to start in an hour.
The landlady is putting us up a huge basket of provisions.
It seems enough for a company of soldiers. The Professor encourages her,
and whispers to me that it may be a week before we can get any food again.
He has been shopping too, and has sent home such a wonderful
lot of fur coats and wraps, and all sorts of warm things.
There will not be any chance of our being cold.
We shall soon be off. I am afraid to think what may happen to us.
We are truly in the hands of God. He alone knows what may be,
and I pray Him, with all the strength of my sad and humble soul,
that He will watch over my beloved husband. That whatever may happen,
Dracula |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Symposium by Xenophon: to you in answer to the flute?
[1] See Cobet, "Pros. Xen." p. 53; and cf. Diog. Laert. iv. 3, 4;
Polyaen. vi. 10; "Hell." IV. viii. 18.
[2] See Aristoph. "Clouds," where Socrates is giving Strepsiades a
lesson in "measures," 639-646: {poteron to trimetron e to
tetrametron}.
Then Socrates: By all that's holy, I wish you would, Hermogenes. How
delightful it would be. Just as a song sounds sweeter in concert with
the flute, so would your talk be more mellifluous attuned to its soft
pipings; and particularly if you would use gesticulation like the
flute-girl, to suit the tenor of your speech.
The Symposium |
