| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Agesilaus by Xenophon: orders to let them go whithersoever they chose, nor suffered them to
be ill-treated, but ordered his bodyguard of cavalry to escort them
out of reach of danger.
[10] I.e. "they had kept their arms."
[11] See Plut. "Ages." xix.; Paus. ix. 34.
And now that the battle had ceased, it was a sight to see where the
encounter took place, the earth bedabbled with gore, the dead lying
cheek by jowl, friend and foe together, and the great shields hacked
and broken to pieces, and the spears snapped asunder, the daggers
lying bare of sheaths, some on the ground, some buried in the bodies,
some still clutched in the dead men's hands. For the moment then,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Lamentable Tragedy of Locrine and Mucedorus by William Shakespeare: MOUSE.
How? give you one of my ears? not & you were ten
masters.
SEGASTO.
Why, sir, I bid you give ear to my words.
MOUSE.
I tell you I will not be made a curtall for no man's
pleasure.
SEGASTO.
I tell thee, attend what I say: go thy ways straight
and rear the whole town.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Copy-Cat & Other Stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: all the way she wept.
It was to Lily's mother's everlasting discredit, in
Mrs. Diantha's opinion, but to Lily's wonderful re-
lief, that when she heard the story, standing in the
hall in her lovely dinner dress, with the strains of
music floating from the drawing-room, and cigar
smoke floating from the dining-room, she laughed.
When Lily said, "And there wasn't even any chicken-
roast, mother," she nearly had hysterics.
"If you think this is a laughing matter, Mrs. Jen-
nings, I do not," said Mrs. Diantha, and again her
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