| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mountains by Stewart Edward White: drops chasing each other down it as fast as rain. We
grinned and felt better.
The fierce perpendicular rays of the sun beat down.
The air under the shed grew stuffier and more
oppressive, but it was the only patch of shade in all that
pink and red furnace of a little valley. The Tenderfoot
discovered a pair of horse-clippers, and, becoming
slightly foolish with the heat, insisted on our
barbering his head. We told him it was cooler with
hair than without; and that the flies and sun would
be offered thus a beautiful opportunity, but without
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Odyssey by Homer: all due pomp, build a barrow to his memory, and make my mother
marry again."
With these words he sat down, and Mentor {20} who had been a
friend of Ulysses, and had been left in charge of everything
with full authority over the servants, rose to speak. He, then,
plainly and in all honesty addressed them thus:
"Hear me, men of Ithaca, I hope that you may never have a kind
and well-disposed ruler any more, nor one who will govern you
equitably; I hope that all your chiefs henceforward may be cruel
and unjust, for there is not one of you but has forgotten
Ulysses, who ruled you as though he were your father. I am not
The Odyssey |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Statesman by Plato: STRANGER: And, now, there can be no mistake about the nature of the part
of weaving which we have undertaken to define. For when that part of the
art of composition which is employed in the working of wool forms a web by
the regular intertexture of warp and woof, the entire woven substance is
called by us a woollen garment, and the art which presides over this is the
art of weaving.
YOUNG SOCRATES: Very true.
STRANGER: But why did we not say at once that weaving is the art of
entwining warp and woof, instead of making a long and useless circuit?
YOUNG SOCRATES: I thought, Stranger, that there was nothing useless in
what was said.
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