| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Blix by Frank Norris: him out in the evening, and instead of lunching at his club with
Sargeant or George Hands, as he had been accustomed to do at one
time, he fell into another habit of lunching with Blix at the flat
on Washington Street, and spending the two hours allowed to him in
the middle of the day in her company.
Condy's desertion of them was often spoken of by the men of his
club with whom he had been at one time so intimate, and the
subject happened to be brought up again one noon when Jack Carter
was in the club as George Hands' guest. Hands, Carter, and Eckert
were at one of the windows over their after-dinner cigars and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Eryxias by Platonic Imitator: ERYXIAS
by
Platonic Imitator (see Appendix II above)
Translated by Benjamin Jowett
INTRODUCTION.
Much cannot be said in praise of the style or conception of the Eryxias.
It is frequently obscure; like the exercise of a student, it is full of
small imitations of Plato:--Phaeax returning from an expedition to Sicily
(compare Socrates in the Charmides from the army at Potidaea), the figure
of the game at draughts, borrowed from the Republic, etc. It has also in
many passages the ring of sophistry. On the other hand, the rather
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs:
Finally the apt relaxed, sighing, as with the passing of a bad
dream, and resumed the regular respiration of deep slumber.
I planted my raised foot beyond the fierce head and an instant
later had stepped over the beast.
Thuvan Dihn followed directly after me, and another moment
found us at the further door, undetected.
The Carrion Caves consist of a series of twenty-seven
connecting chambers, and present the appearance of having been
The Warlord of Mars |
