| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Whirligigs by O. Henry: there ought to be a couple of thousand dollars in
that sack of gold dust I collected as encores, don't you
think?"
He left her at the door of the little Hotel de Buen
Descansar, where she had stopped before. Two hours
later he returned to the hotel. He glanced in at the
open door of the little combined reception room and
cafe.
Half a dozen of Macuto's representative social and
official caballeros were distributed about the room.
Sefior Villablanca, the wealthy rubber concessionist,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Alcibiades II by Platonic Imitator: will most likely prevent you from using the prayer of the Lacedaemonians.
You had better wait until we find out how we should behave towards the Gods
and towards men.
ALCIBIADES: And how long must I wait, Socrates, and who will be my
teacher? I should be very glad to see the man.
SOCRATES: It is he who takes an especial interest in you. But first of
all, I think, the darkness must be taken away in which your soul is now
enveloped, just as Athene in Homer removes the mist from the eyes of
Diomede that
'He may distinguish between God and mortal man.'
Afterwards the means may be given to you whereby you may distinguish
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: tingling with forty degrees of frost, in a night made luminous with
stars and snow, and girt with strange white mountains, teaches the
pulse an unaccustomed tune and adds a new excitement to the life of
man upon his planet.
CHAPTER XII - THE STIMULATION OF THE ALPS
To any one who should come from a southern sanitarium to the Alps,
the row of sun-burned faces round the table would present the first
surprise. He would begin by looking for the invalids, and he would
lose his pains, for not one out of five of even the bad cases bears
the mark of sickness on his face. The plump sunshine from above and
its strong reverberation from below colour the skin like an Indian
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