| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy: If you, as one of those refugee householders, came in from
business after dark--and this was the business time here--
you stealthily crossed the moor, approached the border of
the aforesaid brook, and whistled opposite the house to
which you belonged. A shape thereupon made its appearance
on the other side bearing the bridge on end against the sky;
it was lowered; you crossed, and a hand helped you to land
yourself, together with the pheasants and hares gathered
from neighbouring manors. You sold them slily the next
morning, and the day after you stood before the magistrates
with the eyes of all your sympathizing neighbours
The Mayor of Casterbridge |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: "You do not know me," I said. "When you have read those papers, my own
diary and my husband's also, which I have typed, you will know me better.
I have not faltered in giving every thought of my own heart in this cause.
But, of course, you do not know me, yet, and I must not expect you to trust
me so far."
He is certainly a man of noble nature. Poor dear Lucy was right about him.
He stood up and opened a large drawer, in which were arranged in order
a number of hollow cylinders of metal covered with dark wax, and said,
"You are quite right. I did not trust you because I did not
know you. But I know you now, and let me say that I should
have known you long ago. I know that Lucy told you of me.
Dracula |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Anabasis by Xenophon: leading role. This occurred between 401 B.C. and
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
Anabasis |
