| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Symposium by Xenophon: The Syracusan caught the notion readily.
By all that's holy, Socrates (he cried), a capital suggestion, and for
my part, I warrant you, I will put a piece upon the stage, which will
delight you, one and all.
VIII
With these words the Syracusan made his exit, bent on organising his
performance.[1] As soon as he was gone, Socrates once more essayed a
novel argument.[2] He thus addressed them:
[1] {sunekroteito}, "on the composition of his piece." Al. "amidst a
round of plaudits."
[2] "Struck the keynote of a novel theme." Cf. Plat. "Symp." 177 E.
The Symposium |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry: and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they
are wisest. They are the magi.
End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of THE GIFT OF THE MAGI.
The Gift of the Magi |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from United States Declaration of Independence: For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws,
and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves
invested with Power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection
and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns,
and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries
to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun
with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the
United States Declaration of Independence |
