| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: daytime, night is the only time.[33]
[31] "Before the sun is up."
[32] Or, "thanks to the lonesomeness of the region."
[33] "It is night or never, owing to the dread of man which haunts the
creature's mind during daytime."
As soon as the huntsman finds a gin uprooted he will let slip his
hounds and with cheery encouragement[34] follow along the wake of the
wooden clog, with a keen eye to the direction of its march. That for
the most part will be plain enough, since stones will be displaced,
and the furrow which the clog makes as it trails along will be
conspicuous on tilled ground; or if the deer should strike across
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Light of Western Stars by Zane Grey: on old Bill and Florence vied with each other in calling
Madeline's attention to many things along the way. Coyotes
stealing away into the brush; buzzards flapping over the carcass
of a cow that had been mired in a wash; queer little lizards
running swiftly across the road; cattle grazing in the hollows;
adobe huts of Mexican herders; wild, shaggy horses, with heads
high, watching from the gray ridges--all these things Madeline
looked at, indifferently at first, because indifference had
become habitual with her, and then with an interest that
flourished up and insensibly grew as she rode on. It grew until
sight of a little ragged; Mexican boy astride the most diminutive
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot: 257. _V. The Tempest_, as above.
264. The interior of St. Magnus Martyr is to my mind one of
the finest among Wren's interiors. See _The Pro-posed Demolition
of Nineteen City Churches_ (P. S. King & Son, Ltd.).
266. The Song of the (three) Thames-daughters begins here.
From line 202 to 306 inclusive they speak in turn.
_V. Gotterdammerung_, III. i: the Rhine-daughters.
279. _V._ Froude, ELIZABETH, vol. I, ch. iv, letter of De Quadra
to Philip of Spain:
In the afternoon we were in a barge, watching the games on the river.
(The queen) was alone with Lord Robert and myself on the poop,
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