| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Cavalry General by Xenophon: belonging to rival powers, and in the space between all kinds of
cavalry manouvres are enacted, wheelings and charges and retreats.[25]
Under such circumstances the custom usually is for either party after
wheeling to set off at a slow pace and to gallop full speed only in
the middle of the course. But now suppose that a commander, after
making feint[26] in this style, presently on wheeling quickens for the
charge and quickens to retire--he will be able to hit the enemy far
harder, and pull through absolutely without scathe himself most
likely; through charging at full speed whilst in proximity to his own
stronghold (or main body), and quickening to a gallop as he retires
from the stronghold (or main body) of the enemy. If further, he could
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pericles by William Shakespeare: Is she not a fair creature?
LYSIMACHUS.
'Faith, she would serve after a long voyage at sea. Well, there's
for you: leave us.
BAWD.
I beseech your honour, give me leave: a word, and I'll have done
presently.
LYSIMACHUS.
I beseech you, do.
BAWD.
[To Marina.]
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The House of Dust by Conrad Aiken: Of secret idols carved in secret chambers
From all you did and said.
Nothing was done, until at last she knew you.
Nothing was known, till, somehow, she was dead.
How did she die?--You say, she died of poison.
Simple and swift. And much to be regretted.
You did not see her pass
So many thousand times from light to darkness,
Pausing so many times before her glass;
You did not see how many times she hurried
To lean from certain windows, vainly hoping,
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