| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from In a German Pension by Katherine Mansfield: her five babies and her man and felt almost like a girl again. The music
sounded sad and sweet. Her roughened hands clasped and unclasped
themselves in the folds of her skirt. While the music went on she was
afraid to look anybody in the face, and she smiled with a little nervous
tremor round the mouth.
"But, my God," Frau Rupp cried, "they've given that child of Theresa's a
piece of sausage. It's to keep her quiet. There's going to be a
presentation now--your man has to speak."
Frau Brechenmacher sat up stiffly. The music ceased, and the dancers took
their places again at the tables.
Herr Brechenmacher alone remained standing--he held in his hands a big
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Under the Red Robe by Stanley Weyman: this Gascon lout! That I, whom all Paris knew and feared--if it
did not love--the terror of Zaton's, should come to my end in
this dismal waste of snow and rock, done to death by some pitiful
smuggler or thief! It must not be. Surely in the last resort I
could give an account of one man, though his belt were stuffed
with pistols.
But how? Only, it seemed, by open force. My heart began to
flutter as I planned it; and then grew steady again. A hundred
paces before us a gully or ravine on the left ran up into the
snow-field. Opposite its mouth a jumble of stones and broken
rocks covered the path, I marked this for the place. The knave
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Polity of Athenians and Lacedaemonians by Xenophon: of gymnastic skill, yet are they but trials of bodily excellence, but
this contest for the seniority is of a higher sort--it is an ordeal of
the soul itself. In proportion, therefore, as the soul is worthier
than the body, so must these contests of the soul appeal to a stronger
enthusiasm than their bodily antitypes.
[1] Reading {protheis}. See Plut. "Lycurg." 26 (Clough. i. 118);
Aristot. "Pol." ii. 9, 25.
[2] Or, "seniory," or "senate," or "board of elders"; lit. "the
Gerontia."
[3] Or, "the old age of the good. Yet this he did when he made . . .
since he contrived," etc.
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