| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson: But these are but experiments. All things in this new land
are moving farther on: the wine-vats and the miner's
blasting tools but picket for a night, like Bedouin
pavillions; and to-morrow, to fresh woods! This stir of
change and these perpetual echoes of the moving footfall,
haunt the land. Men move eternally, still chasing Fortune;
and, fortune found, still wander. As we drove back to
Calistoga, the road lay empty of mere passengers, but its
green side was dotted with the camps of travelling families:
one cumbered with a great waggonful of household stuff,
settlers going to occupy a ranche they had taken up in
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Long Odds by H. Rider Haggard: bellow of agony from the ox, and a crunch as the lion put his teeth
through the poor brute's neck, and I began to understand what had
happened. My rifle was in the waggon, and my first thought being to get
hold of it, I turned and made a bolt for the box. I got my foot up on
the wheel and flung my body forward on to the waggon, and there I
stopped as if I were frozen, and no wonder, for as I was about to spring
up I heard the lion behind me, and next second I felt the brute, ay, as
plainly as I can feel this table. I felt him, I say, sniffing at my
left leg that was hanging down.
"My word! I did feel queer; I don't think that I ever felt so queer
before. I dared not move for the life of me, and the odd thing was that
Long Odds |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Gorgias by Plato: friend Callicles right in saying that you undertake to answer any questions
which you are asked?
GORGIAS: Quite right, Chaerephon: I was saying as much only just now; and
I may add, that many years have elapsed since any one has asked me a new
one.
CHAEREPHON: Then you must be very ready, Gorgias.
GORGIAS: Of that, Chaerephon, you can make trial.
POLUS: Yes, indeed, and if you like, Chaerephon, you may make trial of me
too, for I think that Gorgias, who has been talking a long time, is tired.
CHAEREPHON: And do you, Polus, think that you can answer better than
Gorgias?
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