| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Adieu by Honore de Balzac: The old doctor received the inanimate body of his niece, kissed it as
though he were a young man, and carrying it aside, sat down with it
still in his arms on a pile of wood. He looked at the countess and
placed his feeble trembling hand upon her heart. That heart no longer
beat.
"It is true," he said, looking up at the colonel, who stood
motionless, and then at Stephanie, on whom death was placing that
resplendent beauty, that fugitive halo, which is, perhaps, a pledge of
the glorious future--"Yes, she is dead."
"Ah! that smile," cried Philippe, "do you see that smile? Can it be
true?"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Apology by Xenophon: On Revenues 1
The Hiero 1
The Agesilaus 1
The Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians 2
Text in brackets "{}" is my transliteration of Greek text into
English using an Oxford English Dictionary alphabet table. The
diacritical marks have been lost.
The Apology
By Xenophon
Translation by H. G. Dakyns
THE APOLOGY OF SOCRATES[1]
The Apology |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: rainy season commenced.
But, though he did not know it, he had conveyed to the
girl the very message he intended, and it left her happy--
happier than she had ever before been in all her life.
Just then further conversation was interrupted by the sight
of a strange and terrible-looking figure which emerged from
the jungle just south of the camp. Tennington and the girl
saw it at the same time. The Englishman reached for his
revolver, but when the half-naked, bearded creature called
his name aloud and came running toward them he dropped
his hand and advanced to meet it.
The Return of Tarzan |
