| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum: all future time; for, being able to use the reindeer on but one night
of each year, he decided to devote all the other days to the
manufacture of playthings, and on Christmas Eve to carry them to the
children of the world.
But a year's work would, he knew, result in a vast accumulation of
toys, so he resolved to build a new sledge that would be larger and
stronger and better-fitted for swift travel than the old and clumsy one.
His first act was to visit the Gnome King, with whom he made a bargain
to exchange three drums, a trumpet and two dolls for a pair of fine
steel runners, curled beautifully at the ends. For the Gnome King had
children of his own, who, living in the hollows under the earth, in
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from On Horsemanship by Xenophon: horse-like appearance to the head, whilst lofty withers again allow
the rider a surer seat and a stronger adhesion between the shoulders
and the body.[22]
[22] Or if with L. D. [{kai to somati}], transl. "adhesion to the
horse's shoulders."
A "double spine,"[23] again, is at once softer to sit on than a
single, and more pleasing to the eye. So, too, a fairly deep side
somewhat rounded towards the belly[24] will render the animal at once
easier to sit and stronger, and as a general rule better able to
digest his food.[25]
[23] Reading after Courier {rakhis ge men}. See Virg. "Georg." iii.
On Horsemanship |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: Knappe's doing," was the reply. "Becker had changed his mind
before Knappe came." Why, then, had he changed it? This
excellent, if ignominious, idea once entertained, why was it let
drop? It is to be remembered there was another German in the
field, Brandeis, who had a respect, or rather, perhaps, an
affection, for Tamasese, and who thought his own honour and that of
his country engaged in the support of that government which they
had provoked and founded. Becker described the captain to Laupepa
as "a quiet, sensible gentleman." If any word came to his ears of
the intended manoeuvre, Brandeis would certainly show himself very
sensible of the affront; but Becker might have been tempted to
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