| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells: so come to an inn. One can solve no problems when one is engaged in
a struggle with the elements. The thing to do now was to find that
track again. . . .
It took Benham two hours of stumbling and walking, with a little
fence climbing and some barbed wire thrown in, before he got down
into Shere to the shelter of a friendly little inn. And then he
negotiated a satisfying meal, with beef-steak as its central fact,
and stipulated for a fire in his bedroom.
The landlord was a pleasant-faced man; he attended to Benham himself
and displayed a fine sense of comfort. He could produce wine, a
half-bottle of Australian hock, Big Tree brand No. 8, a virile
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Crito by Plato: Do the laws speak truly, or do they not?
CRITO: I think that they do.
SOCRATES: Then the laws will say: 'Consider, Socrates, if we are speaking
truly that in your present attempt you are going to do us an injury. For,
having brought you into the world, and nurtured and educated you, and given
you and every other citizen a share in every good which we had to give, we
further proclaim to any Athenian by the liberty which we allow him, that if
he does not like us when he has become of age and has seen the ways of the
city, and made our acquaintance, he may go where he pleases and take his
goods with him. None of us laws will forbid him or interfere with him.
Any one who does not like us and the city, and who wants to emigrate to a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte: not let them soil my trousers: end Uncle Robson was there too, and
he laughed, and said I was a fine boy.'
'But what would your mamma say?'
'Oh, she doesn't care! she says it's a pity to kill the pretty
singing birds, but the naughty sparrows, and mice, and rats, I may
do what I like with. So now, Miss Grey, you see it is NOT wicked.'
'I still think it is, Tom; and perhaps your papa and mamma would
think so too, if they thought much about it. However,' I
internally added, 'they may say what they please, but I am
determined you shall do nothing of the kind, as long as I have
power to prevent it.'
Agnes Grey |
