| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Hermione's Little Group of Serious Thinkers by Don Marquis: when the time comes I WILL reopen my Salon.
And as far as talking about Sex is concerned --
the right sort of mind will get GOOD out of it, and
the wrong sort will get HARM.
I don't really LIKE discussions of Sex any more
than Mamma does. No really nice girl does.
But we advanced thinkers owe a duty to the race.
Not that the race is grateful. Especially the
lower classes.
It was only last week that I was endeavoring to
introduce the cook to some advanced ideas -- for her
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson: schoolboys, but not related in the schoolboy spirit. A man
so careless of the graces must be out of court with boys and
women. And, indeed, as we have all been more or less to
school, it will astonish no one that Yoshida was regarded by
his scholars as a laughing-stock. The schoolboy has a keen
sense of humour. Heroes he learns to understand and to
admire in books; but he is not forward to recognise the
heroic under the traits of any contemporary man, and least of
all in a brawling, dirty, and eccentric teacher. But as the
years went by, and the scholars of Yoshida continued in vain
to look around them for the abstractly perfect, and began
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Plutarch's Lives by A. H. Clough: another, to seek his friendship and make offer of their service.
Among the rest, Mamercus, the tyrant of Catana, an experienced
warrior and a wealthy prince, made proposals of alliance with him,
and, what was of greater importance still, Dionysius himself being
now grown desperate, and wellnigh forced to surrender, despising
Hicetes who had been thus shamefully baffled, and admiring the valor
of Timoleon, found means to advertise him and his Corinthians that he
should be content to deliver up himself and the citadel into their
hands. Timoleon, gladly embracing this unlooked for advantage, sends
away Euclides and Telemachus, two Corinthian captains, with four
hundred men, for the seizure and custody of the castle, with
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