| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall: currents, the one positive and the other negative, in two opposite
directions through the wire. The presence of these currents evokes
a force of repulsion between the magnet and the wire; and to cause
the one to approach the other, this repulsion must be overcome.
The overcoming of this repulsion is, in fact, the work done in
separating and impelling the two electricities. When the wire is
moved away from the magnet, a Scheidungs-Kraft, or separating force,
also comes into play; but now it is an attraction that has to be
surmounted. In surmounting it, currents are developed in directions
opposed to the former; positive takes the place of negative, and
negative the place of positive; the overcoming of the attraction
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton: "Yes," said Granice, discouraged. "And even if I hadn't been, I
know the garage was just opposite Leffler's over there." He
pointed across the street to a tumble-down stable with a blotched
sign on which the words "Livery and Boarding" were still faintly
discernible.
The young man dashed across to the opposite pavement. "Well,
that's something--may get a clue there. Leffler's--same name
there, anyhow. You remember that name?"
"Yes--distinctly."
Granice had felt a return of confidence since he had enlisted the
interest of the Explorer's "smartest" reporter. If there were
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Confessio Amantis by John Gower: Goth thurgh the large toun unknowe,
Til that sche cam withinne a throwe
Wher that sche liketh forto duelle,
At thilke unhappi freisshe welle, 1390
Which was also the Forest nyh.
Wher sche comende a Leoun syh
Into the feld to take his preie,
In haste and sche tho fledde aweie,
So as fortune scholde falle,
For feere and let hire wympel falle
Nyh to the welle upon therbage.
Confessio Amantis |
