| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Economist by Xenophon: Mahaffy, "Old Greek Life," p. 31.
"And so with you too, my wife, if you would avoid this confusion, if
you would fain know how to administer our goods, so as to lay your
finger readily on this or that as you may need, or if I ask you for
anything, graciously to give it me: let us, I say, select and
assign[12] the appropriate place for each set of things. This shall be
the place where we will put the things; and we will instruct the
housekeeper that she is to take them out thence, and mind to put them
back again there; and in this way we shall know whether they are safe
or not. If anything is gone, the gaping space will cry out as if it
asked for something back.[13] The mere look and aspect of things will
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tik-Tok of Oz by L. Frank Baum: and all that one could see was his thick sky-blue
skin--thicker than that of a rhinoceros--and his
silver scales.
Then, despairing at last of wakening the beast,
and worried over the fate of her friends,
Polychrome again ran down to the entrance and
hurried along the passage into the Nome King's
cavern.
Here she found Ruggedo lolling in his throne and
smoking a long pipe. Beside him stood General Guph
and Kaliko, and ranged before the King were the
Tik-Tok of Oz |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Padre Ignacio by Owen Wister: youth's handsome, reckless countenance would shine out, smiling, in his
memory, and he repeated Auber's old remark, "Is it the good Lord, or is
it merely the devil, that always makes me have a weakness for rascals?"
Sail away on the barkentine! Imagine taking leave of the people here--of
Felipe! In what words should he tell the boy to go on industriously with
his music? No, this was not imaginable! The mere parting alone would make
it for ever impossible to think of such a thing. "And then," he said to
himself each new morning, when he looked out at the ocean, "I have given
to them my life. One does not take back a gift."
Pictures of his departure began to shine and melt in his drifting fancy.
He saw himself explaining to Felipe that now his presence was wanted
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