| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Call of the Canyon by Zane Grey: had to come down an' strut around an' show off your beauty. An' I ask you--
if you're a nice girl like Flo Hutter--what 'd you wear it fer?"
Carley not only was mute; she felt rise and burn in her a singular shame
and surprise.
"I'm only a sheep dipper," went on Ruff, "but I ain't no fool. A fellar
doesn't have to live East an' wear swell clothes to have sense. Mebbe
you'll learn thet the West is bigger'n you think. A man's a man East or
West. But if your Eastern men stand for such dresses as thet white one
they'd do well to come out West awhile, like your lover, Glenn Kilbourne.
I've been rustlin' round here ten years, an' I never before seen a dress
like yours--an' I never heerd of a girl bein' insulted, either. Mebbe you
The Call of the Canyon |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Schoolmistress and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov: in authority; Vodolazov mimicked drunken merchants and Armenians;
and Fenogenov (on his passport his name was Knish), a tall, stout
Little Russian with black eyes and frowning brow,
declaimed "At the portals of the great," and "To be or not to
be." Limonadov, with tears in his eyes, described his interview
with the former Governor, General Kanyutchin. The police captain
listened, was bored, and smiled affably. He was well satisfied,
although Limonadov smelt strongly of burnt feathers, and
Fenogenov was wearing a hired dress coat and boots trodden down
at heel. They pleased his daughter and made her lively, and that
was enough for him. And Masha never took her eyes off the
The Schoolmistress and Other Stories |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Philebus by Plato: would rather show by another argument that there are many false pleasures
existing or coming into existence in us, because this may assist our final
decision.
PROTARCHUS: Very true; that is to say, if there are such pleasures.
SOCRATES: I think that there are, Protarchus; but this is an opinion which
should be well assured, and not rest upon a mere assertion.
PROTARCHUS: Very good.
SOCRATES: Then now, like wrestlers, let us approach and grasp this new
argument.
PROTARCHUS: Proceed.
SOCRATES: We were maintaining a little while since, that when desires, as
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