| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell: and left to myself. The next day, when the groom was cleaning my face,
he said:
"That is just like the star that `Black Beauty' had;
he is much the same height, too. I wonder where he is now."
A little further on he came to the place in my neck where I was bled
and where a little knot was left in the skin. He almost started,
and began to look me over carefully, talking to himself.
"White star in the forehead, one white foot on the off side, this little knot
just in that place;" then looking at the middle of my back -- "and,
as I am alive, there is that little patch of white hair that
John used to call `Beauty's three-penny bit'. It must be `Black Beauty'!
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: to an accompaniment of plunging, hollow-sounding bows and the
rattling spray-showers overhead.
All seemed unfit for conversation; a certain dizziness had
interrupted the activity of their minds; and except to sing they were
tongue-tied. There was present, however, one tall, powerful fellow
of doubtful nationality, being neither quite Scotsman nor altogether
Irish, but of surprising clearness of conviction on the highest
problems. He had gone nearly beside himself on the Sunday, because
of a general backwardness to indorse his definition of mind as 'a
living, thinking substance which cannot be felt, heard, or seen' -
nor, I presume, although he failed to mention it, smelt. Now he came
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Polity of Athenians and Lacedaemonians by Xenophon: [13] Or, "vedettes," {proskopon}. See "Cyrop." V. ii. 6.
[14] ? Or, "on your arms." See Sturz, "Lex. Xen." s.v.
If the story is a little long the reader must not be surprised, since
it would be difficult to find any point in military matters omitted by
the Lacedaemonians which seems to demand attention.
XIII
I will now give a detailed account of the power and privilege assigned
by Lycurgus to the king during a campaign. To begin with, so long as
he is on active service, the state maintains the king and those with
him.[1] The polemarchs mess with him and share his quarters, so that
by dint of constant intercourse they may be all the better able to
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