| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Poems by Bronte Sisters: Nor riches half our wants supply,
Pleasure but doubles future pain,
And joy brings sorrow in her train;
Laughter is mad, and reckless mirth--
What does she in this weary earth?
Should Wealth, or Fame, our Life employ,
Death comes, our labour to destroy;
To snatch the untasted cup away,
For which we toiled so many a day.
What, then, remains for wretched man?
To use life's comforts while he can,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart: indicated. I was still unfamiliar with the house, and I did not
remember the door. My heart was thumping wildly in my ears, but
I nodded to him to go ahead. I was perhaps eight or ten feet
away--and then he threw the bolt back.
"Come out," he said quietly. There was no response. "Come--
out," he repeated. Then--I think he had a revolver, but I am not
sure--he stepped aside and threw the door open.
From where I stood I could not see beyond the door, but I saw Mr.
Jamieson's face change and heard him mutter something, then he
bolted down the stairs, three at a time. When my knees had
stopped shaking, I moved forward, slowly, nervously, until I had
The Circular Staircase |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Anabasis by Xenophon: return of the Greeks, in which Xenophon played a
leading role. This occurred between 401 B.C. and
March 399 B.C.
PREPARER'S NOTE
This was typed from Dakyns' series, "The Works of Xenophon," a
four-volume set. The complete list of Xenophon's works (though
there is doubt about some of these) is:
Work Number of books
The Anabasis 7
The Hellenica 7
The Cyropaedia 8
Anabasis |
