| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Heroes by Charles Kingsley: which no fly ever finds his way out again, and this down the
spider's house, and I the spider who sucks the flies? Come
hither, and let me feast upon you; for it is of no use to run
away, so cunning a web has my father Hephaistos spread for me
when he made these clefts in the mountains, through which no
man finds his way home.'
But Theseus came on steadily, and asked -
'And what is your name among men, bold spider? and where are
your spider's fangs?'
Then the strange man laughed again -
'My name is Periphetes, the son of Hephaistos and Anticleia
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: to where I stood. They were large men, possibly six feet and
over in height. Their features were clear cut and handsome
in the extreme; their eyes were well set and large, though a
slight narrowness lent them a crafty appearance; the iris, as
well as I could determine by moonlight, was of extreme
blackness, while the eyeball itself was quite white and clear.
The physical structure of their bodies seemed identical with
those of the therns, the red men, and my own. Only in the
colour of their skin did they differ materially from us; that
is of the appearance of polished ebony, and odd as it
may seem for a Southerner to say it, adds to rather than
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Cavalry General by Xenophon: [4] Celebrated in March (Elaphebolion).
[5] Or, "by dancing roundelays in honour of the gods, especially The
Twelve"; and as to the Twelve cf. Aristoph. "Knights," 235,
"Birds," 95; Plat. "Laws," 654; Paus. i. 3. 3; 40. 3; viii. 25. 3;
Plut. "Nic." 13; Lycurg. 198.
[6] Or, "it would be a beautiful sequel to the proceedings, in my
opinion, if at this point they formed in squadron column, and
giving rein to their chargers, swept forward at full gallop to the
Eleusinion." See Leake, op. cit. i. 296.
[7] Lit. "nor will I omit how the lances shall as little as possible
overlap one another."
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