| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald: gasoline.
"We've got enough to get us to town," said Tom.
"But there's a garage right here," objected Jordan. "I don't want to get
stalled in this baking heat." Tom threw on both brakes impatiently, and
we slid to an abrupt dusty stop under Wilson's sign. After a moment the
proprietor emerged from the interior of his establishment and gazed
hollow-eyed at the car.
"Let's have some gas!" cried Tom roughly. "What do you think we stopped
for--to admire the view?"
"I'm sick," said Wilson without moving. "Been sick all day."
"What's the matter?"
The Great Gatsby |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Symposium by Xenophon: praise of our visitor from Heraclea,[104] that first you made me
thirst for his society, and then united us.[105] For which indeed I am
your debtor, since I find him a fine handsome fellow and true
gentleman.[106] And did you not, moreover, sing the praises of
Aeschylus of Phlius[107] in my ears and mine in his?--in fact,
affected us so much by what you said, we fell in love and took to
coursing wildly in pursuit of one another like two dogs upon a
trail.[108]
[100] Or, "the sage," "the sophist." See "Mem." I. vi. 13; II. i. 21.
[101] See "Mem." IV. iv. 5; and for his art of memory cf. Plat. "Hipp.
min." 368 D; "Hipp. maj." 285 E.
The Symposium |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter by Beatrix Potter: "The man in the wilderness said to me,
`How may strawberries grow in the sea?'
I answered him as I thought good--
`As many red herrings as grow in the wood."'
But old Mr. Brown took no interest
in riddles--not even when the answer
was provided for him.
On the fourth day the squirrels
brought a present of six fat beetles,
which were as good as plums in
PLUM-PUDDING for Old Brown. Each
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