| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Memorabilia by Xenophon: costlier material than the others?
Because, Socrates (he answered), mine are of much finer proportion.
Soc. Proportion! Then how do you make this quality apparent to the
customer so as to justify the higher price--by measure or weight? For
I presume you cannot make them all exactly equal and of one pattern--
if you make them fit, as of course you do?
Fit indeed! that I most distinctly do (he answered), take my word for
it: no use in a corselet without that.
But then are not the wearer's bodies themselves (asked Socrates) some
well proportioned and others ill?
Decidedly so (he answered).
The Memorabilia |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson: A pleasant room wherein to wake
And hear the leafy garden shake
And rustle in the wind--
And pleasant there to lie in bed
And see the pictures overhead--
The wars about Sebastopol,
The grinning guns along the wall,
The daring escalade,
The plunging ships, the bleating sheep,
The happy children ankle-deep
And laughing as they wade:
A Child's Garden of Verses |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: Once more accordingly the pair pledged each other in a
stalwart grog; and Zero, leaning back with an air of some
complacency, proceeded more largely to develop his opinions.
'The indiscriminate?' he began. 'War, my dear sir, is
indiscriminate. War spares not the child; it spares not the
barrow of the harmless scavenger. No more,' he concluded,
beaming, 'no more do I. Whatever may strike fear, whatever
may confound or paralyse the activities of the guilty nation,
barrow or child, imperial Parliament or excursion steamer, is
welcome to my simple plans. You are not,' he inquired, with
a shade of sympathetic interest, 'you are not, I trust, a
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