| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Symposium by Xenophon: G." viii. 457, on the "extremely Aristophanic" character of the
"Symposium" of Xenophon.
[22] "Him, the master, thus declare himself."
At this point Lycon, turning to Philippus: We need not ask you what
you take the chiefest pride in. What can it be, you laughter-making
man, except to set folk laughing?
Yes (he answered), and with better right, I fancy, than
Callippides,[23] the actor, who struts and gives himself such pompous
airs, to think that he alone can set the crowds a-weeping in the
theatre.[24]
[23] For illustrative tales about him see Plut. "Ages." xxi.; "Alcib."
The Symposium |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Golden Threshold by Sarojini Naidu: I have no more to give, all that was mine
Is laid, a wrested tribute, at thy shrine;
Let me depart, for my whole soul is wrung,
And all my cheerless orisons are sung;
Let me depart, with faint limbs let me creep
To some dim shade and sink me down to sleep.
THE SONG OF PRINCESS ZEB-UN-NISSA
IN PRAISE OF HER OWN BEAUTY
(From the Persian)
When from my cheek I lift my veil,
The roses turn with envy pale,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: Tobolsk, from Yakutsk, from Irkutsk! In truth, the chief
of police, accustomed to the despotic sentences of the ukase
which formerly never pardoned, could not understand this
mode of governing. But he was silent, waiting until the
Czar should interrogate him further. The questions were
not long in coming.
"Did not Ivan Ogareff," asked the Czar, "return to
Russia a second time, after that journey through the
Siberian provinces, the object of which remains unknown?"
"He did."
"And have the police lost trace of him since?"
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