| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Memorabilia by Xenophon: After he listened to the story, Socrates asked: How comes it that
Ceramon,[2] with so many mouths to feed, not only contrives to furnish
himself and them with the necessaries of life, but to realise a
handsome surplus, whilst you being in like plight[3] are afraid you
will one and all perish of starvation for want of the necessaries of
life?
[2] An employer of labour, apparently, on a grand scale.
[3] Lit. "with your large family to feed." L. Dindorf would like to
read {su de oligous}, "you with your small family."
Ar. Why, bless your soul, do you not see he has only slaves and I have
free-born souls to feed?
The Memorabilia |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from 'Twixt Land & Sea by Joseph Conrad: touchy, too! I shouldn't wonder if it was your conduct last night
that hurt his feelings? I noticed you, Freya. You as well as
laughed in his face, while he was suffering agonies from neuralgia.
It isn't the way to get yourself liked. He's offended with you."
Freya's hands now reposed passive on the keys; she bowed her fair
head, feeling a sudden discontent, a nervous lassitude, as though
she had passed through some exhausting crisis. Old Nelson (or
Nielsen), looking aggrieved, was revolving matters of policy in his
bald head.
"I think it would be right for me to go on board just to inquire,
some time this morning," he declared fussily. "Why don't they
'Twixt Land & Sea |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Polity of Athenians and Lacedaemonians by Xenophon: the Laconian heavy infantry is highly complicated, no conception could
be more opposed to fact. For in the Laconian order the front rank men
are all leaders,[11] so that each file has everything necessary to
play its part efficiently. In fact, this disposition is so easy to
understand that no one who can distinguish one human being from
another could fail to follow it. One set have the privilege of
leaders, the other the duty of followers. The evolutional orders,[12]
by which greater depth or shallowness is given to the battle line, are
given by word of mouth by the enomotarch (or commander of the
section), who plays the part of the herald, and they cannot be
mistaken. None of these manouvres presents any difficulty whatsoever
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