| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy: the heath beyond. The open hills were airy and clear,
and the remote atmosphere appeared, as it often appears
on a fine winter day, in distinct planes of illumination
independently toned, the rays which lit the nearer tracts
of landscape streaming visibly across those further off;
a stratum of ensaffroned light was imposed on a stratum
of deep blue, and behind these lay still remoter scenes
wrapped in frigid grey.
They reached the place where the hollies grew,
which was in a conical pit, so that the tops of the trees
were not much above the general level of the ground.
Return of the Native |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Apology by Xenophon: The Hiero 1
The Agesilaus 1
The Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians 2
Text in brackets "{}" is my transliteration of Greek text into
English using an Oxford English Dictionary alphabet table. The
diacritical marks have been lost.
The Apology
By Xenophon
Translation by H. G. Dakyns
THE APOLOGY OF SOCRATES[1]
Among the reminiscences of Socrates, none, as it seems to me, is more
The Apology |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates: his eyes.
"I didn't wait up, sir," he explained, "but, hearing the car, I
just come down to see you'd got everything. Miss Mansel asleep,
sir?"
I stared at him for a moment and then looked down at the charge
in my arms. A corner of the rug had fallen over her face.
Thomas, naturally enough, thought it was Jill.
"Er- yes," said I. "She's tired, you know. And you'd better
not let her see you. She'll be awfully angry to think you got up
for us. You know what she said."
Thomas laughed respectfully. I passed up the stairs, and he
The Brother of Daphne |
