| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Rig Veda: to
your car
Let your protecting help be near.
2 Come, Asvins, with your car more swift than is the twinkling
of an
eye
Let your protecting help be near.
3 Asvins, ye overlaid with cold the fiery pit for Atri's sake:
Let your protecting help be near.
4 Where are ye? whither are ye gone? whither, like falcons,
have ye
The Rig Veda |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Stories From the Old Attic by Robert Harris: paper on aperceptual phenomenalism."
"Well, at least my wife reads my papers. At least my wife can read."
"My wife is an avid reader of literature."
"Since when did the television listings become 'literature'? That's
the most transparent semantic ploy I have ever heard."
"Are you accusing me of owning a television?"
"He who can see the maggots need not ask if the dog is dead."
"'Ignore the shadow cast by a passing vapor,' says Phonetes."
"You've always been sloppy with bibliography, haven't you?" demanded
the beard. "Phonetes would have been utterly embarrassed to have
said that."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: exercise in geography for the young folks to trace my course.
I hope they have entered upon the writing. The library will
afford abundance of excellent books, which I wish you would
employ a little. I hope you are doing me the favour to go
much out with the boys, which will do you much good and
prevent them from getting so very much overheated.'
[TO THE BOYS - PRINTED.]
`When I had last the pleasure of writing to you, your
dear little brother James and your sweet little sister Mary
were still with us. But it has pleased God to remove them to
another and a better world, and we must submit to the will of
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