| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Anabasis by Xenophon: March 399 B.C.
PREPARER'S NOTE
This was typed from Dakyns' series, "The Works of Xenophon," a
four-volume set. The complete list of Xenophon's works (though
there is doubt about some of these) is:
Work Number of books
The Anabasis 7
The Hellenica 7
The Cyropaedia 8
The Memorabilia 4
The Symposium 1
Anabasis |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: to get a glimpse of his children! I have given all my life to
them, and to-day they will not give me one hour! I am hungering
and thirsting for them, my heart is burning in me, but they will
not come to bring relief in the agony, for I am dying now, I feel
that this is death. Do they not know what it means to trample on
a father's corpse? There is a God in heaven who avenges us
fathers whether we will or no.
"Oh! they will come! Come to me, darlings, and give me one more
kiss; one last kiss, the Viaticum for your father, who will pray
God for you in heaven. I will tell Him that you have been good
children to your father, and plead your cause with God! After
Father Goriot |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In the South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson: himself very sensible of the beauty and amenity of the hour. 'Good
night! Good wind!' he kept exclaiming, and as he said the words he
seemed to hug myself. I had long before invented such reiterated
expressions of delight for a character (Felipe, in the story of
OLALLA) intended to be partly bestial. But there was nothing
bestial in Te Kop; only a childish pleasure in the moment. He was
no less pleased with his companion, or was good enough to say so;
honoured me, before he left, by calling me Te Kop; apostrophised me
as 'My name!' with an intonation exquisitely tender, laying his
hand at the same time swiftly on my knee; and after we had risen,
and our paths began to separate in the bush, twice cried to me with
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