| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Desert Gold by Zane Grey: resurged when he saw a limp white form in Jim Lash's arms. Ladd
was supporting a horseman who wore a military uniform.
Gale shouted with joy and ran into the house to tell the good news.
It was the ever-thoughtful Mrs. Belding who prevented him from
rushing in to tell Mercedes. Then he hurried out into the yard,
closely followed by the Beldings.
Lash handed down a ragged, travel-stained, wan girl into Belding's
arms.
"Dad! Mama!"
It was indeed a repentant Nell, but there was spirit yet in the
tired blue eyes. Then she caught sight of Gale and gave him a
Desert Gold |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Symposium by Xenophon: type of virtue.
[5] i.e. "social uprightness."
Of course it is (rejoined Antisthenes) the most indisputable specimen.
Since, look you, courage and wisdom may at times be found calamitous
to friends or country,[6] but justice has no single point in common
with injustice, right and wrong cannot commingle.[7]
[6] See "Mem." IV. ii. 33.
[7] i.e. "the one excludes the other."
Well then (proceeded Callias), as soon[8] as every one has stated his
peculiar merit,[9] I will make no bones of letting you into my secret.
You shall learn the art by which I consummate my noble end.[10] So
The Symposium |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Cousin Pons by Honore de Balzac: offers to let you see the memoranda of the sale. He is a Proteus; in
one hour he can be Jocrisse, Janot, /Queue-rouge/, Mondor, Hapagon, or
Nicodeme.
The third year found armor, and old pictures, and some tolerably fine
clocks in Remonencq's shop. He sent for his sister, and La Remonencq
came on foot all the way from Auvergne to take charge of the shop
while her brother was away. A big and very ugly woman, dressed like a
Japanese idol, a half-idiotic creature with a vague, staring gaze she
would not bate a centime of the prices fixed by her brother. In the
intervals of business she did the work of the house, and solved the
apparently insoluble problem--how to live on "the mists of the Seine."
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