| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Apology by Xenophon: 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
The Economist 1
On Horsemanship 1
The Sportsman 1
The Cavalry General 1
The Apology |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: that was a pleasant memory. "And when it was all over I went to
our wigwam. You remember the wigwam?"
"Out in the West Wood?"
"Yes--and cried--for all the evil I had done you, I suppose....
I've often thought of it since."...
Lady Osprey stopped for us to overtake her. "My dear!" she said
to Beatrice. "Such a beautiful gallery!" Then she stared very
hard at me, puzzled in the most naked fashion to understand who I
might be.
"People say the oak staircase is rather good," said my aunt, and
led the way.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Collected Articles by Frederick Douglass: Mr. Taber said: "Thee get in." I never obeyed an order with more alacrity,
and we were soon on our way to our new home. When we reached "Stone Bridge"
the passengers alighted for breakfast, and paid their fares to the driver.
We took no breakfast, and, when asked for our fares, I told the driver
I would make it right with him when we reached New Bedford.
I expected some objection to this on his part, but he made none.
When, however, we reached New Bedford, he took our baggage,
including three music-books,--two of them collections by Dyer,
and one by Shaw,--and held them until I was able to redeem them
by paying to him the amount due for our rides. This was soon done,
for Mr. Nathan Johnson not only received me kindly and hospitably,
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