| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Reason Discourse by Rene Descartes: are legitimately applicable. Perceiving further, that in order to
understand these relations I should sometimes have to consider them one by
one and sometimes only to bear them in mind, or embrace them in the
aggregate, I thought that, in order the better to consider them
individually, I should view them as subsisting between straight lines,
than which I could find no objects more simple, or capable of being more
distinctly represented to my imagination and senses; and on the other
hand, that in order to retain them in the memory or embrace an aggregate
of many, I should express them by certain characters the briefest
possible. In this way I believed that I could borrow all that was best
both in geometrical analysis and in algebra, and correct all the defects
Reason Discourse |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Middlemarch by George Eliot: billiard-table every night again--he won't bear the curb long;'
I was tempted to do the opposite of what I am doing--to hold my tongue
and wait while you went down the ladder again, betting first and then--"
"I have not made any bets," said Fred, hastily.
"Glad to hear it. But I say, my prompting was to look on and see
you take the wrong turning, wear out Garth's patience, and lose
the best opportunity of your life--the opportunity which you made
some rather difficult effort to secure. You can guess the feeling
which raised that temptation in me--I am sure you know it.
I am sure you know that the satisfaction of your affections stands
in the way of mine."
Middlemarch |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Witch, et. al by Anton Chekhov: He believed in his old woman who had brought him there, and in
Yegor; and when he had mentioned the hydropathic establishment it
could be seen that he believed in the establishment and the
healing efficacy of water.
Having finished the letter, Yegor got up and read the whole of it
through from the beginning. The old man did not understand, but
he nodded his head trustfully.
"That's all right; it is smooth . . ." he said. "God give you
health. That's all right. . . ."
They laid on the table three five-kopeck pieces and went out of
the tavern; the old man looked immovably straight before him as
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