| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne: approves of it or not.
In the latter end of the third year, my uncle Toby perceiving that the
parameter and semi-parameter of the conic section angered his wound, he
left off the study of projectiles in a kind of a huff, and betook himself
to the practical part of fortification only; the pleasure of which, like a
spring held back, returned upon him with redoubled force.
It was in this year that my uncle began to break in upon the daily
regularity of a clean shirt,--to dismiss his barber unshaven,--and to allow
his surgeon scarce time sufficient to dress his wound, concerning himself
so little about it, as not to ask him once in seven times dressing, how it
went on: when, lo!--all of a sudden, for the change was quick as
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Menexenus by Plato: writings are separated from his later ones by as wide an interval of
philosophical speculation as that which separates his later writings from
Aristotle.
The dialogues which have been translated in the first Appendix, and which
appear to have the next claim to genuineness among the Platonic writings,
are the Lesser Hippias, the Menexenus or Funeral Oration, the First
Alcibiades. Of these, the Lesser Hippias and the Funeral Oration are cited
by Aristotle; the first in the Metaphysics, the latter in the Rhetoric.
Neither of them are expressly attributed to Plato, but in his citation of
both of them he seems to be referring to passages in the extant dialogues.
From the mention of 'Hippias' in the singular by Aristotle, we may perhaps
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: His only remark, as he donned his armor, while the
girl waited without, was that I should now behold the
falcon guarding the dove. Hast he not returned?"
"No," said the old man, "and doubtless his adven-
ture is of a nature in line with thy puerile and effemi-
nate teachings. Had he followed my training, without
thy accurst priestly interference, he had made an iron-
barred nest in Torn for many of the doves of thy
damned English nobility. An' thou leave him not alone
he will soon be seeking service in the household of
the King."
The Outlaw of Torn |
