| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith: to eat up such a supper? Two or three little things, clean and
comfortable, will do.
HASTINGS. But let's hear it.
MARLOW. (Reading.) For the first course, at the top, a pig and prune
sauce.
HASTINGS. Damn your pig, I say.
MARLOW. And damn your prune sauce, say I.
HARDCASTLE. And yet, gentlemen, to men that are hungry, pig with
prune sauce is very good eating.
MARLOW. At the bottom, a calf's tongue and brains.
HASTINGS. Let your brains be knocked out, my good sir, I don't like
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Economist by Xenophon: as men regard them, such as it will best befit me to pursue with
devotion; be so good as to point me out these and their performers,
and, above all, contribute as far as in you lies the aid of your own
personal instruction.
Soc. A good suggestion, Critobulus, for the base mechanic arts, so
called, have got a bad name; and what is more, are held in ill repute
by civilised communities, and not unreasonably; seeing they are the
ruin of the bodies of all concerned in them, workers and overseers
alike, who are forced to remain in sitting postures and to hug the
loom, or else to crouch whole days confronting a furnace. Hand in
hand with physical enervation follows apace enfeeblement of soul:
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from My Antonia by Willa Cather: and the top of the table was soon swimming with juice and seeds.
I had never seen anyone eat so many melons as Peter ate.
He assured us that they were good for one--better than medicine;
in his country people lived on them at this time of year.
He was very hospitable and jolly. Once, while he was looking
at Antonia, he sighed and told us that if he had stayed
at home in Russia perhaps by this time he would have had
a pretty daughter of his own to cook and keep house for him.
He said he had left his country because of a `great trouble.'
When we got up to go, Peter looked about in perplexity for
something that would entertain us. He ran into the storeroom
My Antonia |
