| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from McTeague by Frank Norris: "He threw his knife at you! The coward! He wouldn't of dared
stand up to you like a man. Oh, Mac, suppose he HAD hit
you?"
"Came within an inch of my head," put in McTeague, proudly.
"Think of it!" she gasped; "and he wanted part of my money.
Well, I do like his cheek; part of my five thousand! Why,
it's mine, every single penny of it. Marcus hasn't the least
bit of right to it. It's mine, mine.--I mean, it's ours,
Mac, dear."
The elder Sieppes, however, made excuses for Marcus. He had
probably been drinking a good deal and didn't know what he
McTeague |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Charmides by Plato: else? (Socrates is intending to show that science differs from the object
of science, as any other relative differs from the object of relation. But
where there is comparison--greater, less, heavier, lighter, and the like--a
relation to self as well as to other things involves an absolute
contradiction; and in other cases, as in the case of the senses, is hardly
conceivable. The use of the genitive after the comparative in Greek,
(Greek), creates an unavoidable obscurity in the translation.)
Yes.
Which is less, if the other is conceived to be greater?
To be sure.
And if we could find something which is at once greater than itself, and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Arrow of Gold by Joseph Conrad: teeth were very white when he smiled at her. But his eyes are too
deep in his head for my taste. I didn't like it. It reminded me
of a certain very severe priest who used to come to our village
when I was young; younger even than your marvel, Dominic."
"It was no priest in disguise, Madame Leonore," I said, amused by
her expression of disgust. "That's an American."
"Ah! Un Americano! Well, never mind him. It was her that I went
to see."
"What! Walked to the other end of the town to see Dona Rita!"
Dominic addressed her in a low bantering tone. "Why, you were
always telling me you couldn't walk further than the end of the
The Arrow of Gold |
