| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from My Antonia by Willa Cather: It was like this:
When Otto left Austria to come to America, he was asked
by one of his relatives to look after a woman who was
crossing on the same boat, to join her husband in Chicago.
The woman started off with two children, but it was clear
that her family might grow larger on the journey.
Fuchs said he `got on fine with the kids,' and liked
the mother, though she played a sorry trick on him.
In mid-ocean she proceeded to have not one baby, but three!
This event made Fuchs the object of undeserved notoriety,
since he was travelling with her. The steerage stewardess was
My Antonia |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Bucolics by Virgil: Or to fling taunts at Codrus. Come, begin,
While Tityrus watches o'er the grazing kids.
MOPSUS
Nay, then, I will essay what late I carved
On a green beech-tree's rind, playing by turns,
And marking down the notes; then afterward
Bid you Amyntas match them if he can.
MENALCAS
As limber willow to pale olive yields,
As lowly Celtic nard to rose-buds bright,
So, to my mind, Amyntas yields to you.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Hermione's Little Group of Serious Thinkers by Don Marquis: is to be honest.
One must put one's soul into one's environment.
Although Environment isn't what it used to be.
You don't hear Environment spoken of nearly as
often as you did.
Environment is going out.
But besides being so esoteric and exotic and ar-
tistic, and all that sort of things, the Japanese are
wonderfully up to date, too.
Do you know, they actually have a battleship
named The Tango!
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