| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Hiero by Xenophon: those of people in a humbler condition, and his pains not only far
more numerous, but more intense.
That sounds incredible (exclaimed Simonides); if it were really so,
how do you explain the passionate desire commonly displayed to wield
the tyrant's sceptre, and that too on the part of persons reputed to
be the ablest of men? Why should all men envy the despotic monarch?
For the all-sufficient reason (he replied) that they form conclusions
on the matter without experience of the two conditions. And I will try
to prove to you the truth of what I say, beginning with the faculty of
vision, which, unless my memory betrays me, was your starting-point.
Well then, when I come to reason[13] on the matter, first of all I
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Glinda of Oz by L. Frank Baum: table disappear from the floor of the cottage.
"I wish you'd consent to my transforming your
fishes," she said, as she took up her knitting again.
The Skeezer made no reply. He thought it unwise to
hurry matters. All during the afternoon they sat
silent. Once Reera went to her cupboard and after
thrusting her hand into the same drawer as before,
touched the wolf and transformed it into a bird with
gorgeous colored feathers. This bird was larger than a
parrot and of a somewhat different form, but Ervic had
never seen one like it before.
Glinda of Oz |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Rescue by Joseph Conrad: the cabin door open behind his back. "Steward, my pistols." The
mulatto in slippers, aproned to the chin, glided through the
cabin with unseeing eyes as though for him no one there had
existed. . . .--"Is it my heart that aches so?" Mrs. Travers
asked herself, contemplating Lingard's motionless figure. "How
long will this sensation of dull pain last? Will it last forever.
. . ." --"How many changes of clothes shall I put up, sir?" asked
the steward, while Lingard took the pistols from him and eased
the hammers after putting on fresh caps. --"I will take nothing
this time, steward." He received in turn from the mulatto's hands
a red silk handkerchief, a pocket book, a cigar-case. He knotted
The Rescue |
