| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Anabasis by Xenophon: and property in Scillus, where he lived for many
years before having to move once more, to settle
in Corinth. He died in 354 B.C.
The Anabasis is his story of the march to Persia
to aid Cyrus, who enlisted Greek help to try and
take the throne from Artaxerxes, and the ensuing
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
Anabasis |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: them upon the downs a boy battled with a lunging,
rearing horse--a perfect demon of a black horse. Strik-
ing and biting in a frenzy of rage it sought ever to
escape or injure the lithe figure which clung leech-like
to its shoulder.
The boy was on the ground. His left hand grasped
the heavy mane; his right arm lay across the beast's
withers and his right hand drew steadily in upon a
halter rope with which he had taken a half hitch about
the horse's muzzle. Now the black reared and wheeled,
striking and biting, full upon the youth, but the active
The Outlaw of Torn |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Case of The Lamp That Went Out by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: houses. The detective decided that it might interest him to know
something more about this garden, this house and the people who
lived there. And when Muller made such a decision it was usually
not very long before he carried it out.
The other street, upon which the main front of the mansard house
opened, contained a few isolated dwellings surrounded by gardens
and a number of newly built apartment houses. On the ground floor
of these latter houses were a number of stores and immediately
opposite the Thorne mansion was a little caf‚. This suited Muller
exactly, for he had been there before and he remembered that from
one of the windows there was an excellent view of the gate and the
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