| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Glinda of Oz by L. Frank Baum: to spy upon us?"
"I am Princess Ozma, Ruler of all the Land of Oz."
"Well, I've never heard of the Land of Oz, so you may
be what you claim," returned the Flathead.
"This is the Land of Oz -- part of it, anyway,"
exclaimed Dorothy. "So Princess Ozma rules you Flathead
people, as well as all the other people in Oz."
The man laughed, and all the others who stood around
laughed, too. Some one in the crowd called:
"She'd better not tell the Supreme Dictator about
ruling the Flatheads. Eh, friends?"
Glinda of Oz |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Options by O. Henry: mules all right, but he drove the English language much too hard. His
name sounded like a Yale key when you push it in wrong side up, but I
called him McClintock, which was close to the noise.
"Well, this gold village was forty miles up in the mountains, and it
took us nine days to find it. But one afternoon McClintock led the
other mules and myself over a rawhide bridge stretched across a
precipice five thousand feet deep, it seemed to me. The hoofs of the
beasts drummed on it just like before George M. Cohan makes his first
entrance on the stage.
"This village was built of mud and stone, and had no streets. Some
few yellow-and-brown persons popped their heads out-of-doors, looking
Options |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Symposium by Xenophon: unwise are they who choose not beauteous men to be their generals. How
merrily would I, at any rate, march through fire by the side of
Cleinias;[29] and so would all of you, I know full well, in company of
him who now addresses you.
[25] "We beauties."
[26] The {eispnelas} in relation to the {aitas}, the Inspirer to the
Hearer. Cf. Theocr. xii. 13; Ael. "V. H." iii. 12. See Muller,
"Dorians," ii. 300 foll.
[27] {philokaloterous}. Cf. Plat. "Phaedr." 248 D; "Criti." 111 E;
Aristot. "Eth. N." iv. 4. 4; x. 9. 3.
[28] Lit. "they feel most awe of what they most desire."
The Symposium |
