| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Crito by Plato: children; for you might bring them up and educate them; instead of which
you go away and leave them, and they will have to take their chance; and if
they do not meet with the usual fate of orphans, there will be small thanks
to you. No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to
persevere to the end in their nurture and education. But you appear to be
choosing the easier part, not the better and manlier, which would have been
more becoming in one who professes to care for virtue in all his actions,
like yourself. And indeed, I am ashamed not only of you, but of us who are
your friends, when I reflect that the whole business will be attributed
entirely to our want of courage. The trial need never have come on, or
might have been managed differently; and this last act, or crowning folly,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne: But the incredulous Stuart was not convinced, and when the
hand was finished, said eagerly: "You have a strange way, Ralph,
of proving that the world has grown smaller. So, because you
can go round it in three months--"
"In eighty days," interrupted Phileas Fogg.
"That is true, gentlemen," added John Sullivan. "Only eighty days,
now that the section between Rothal and Allahabad, on the
Great Indian Peninsula Railway, has been opened.
Here is the estimate made by the Daily Telegraph:
From London to Suez via Mont Cenis and
Brindisi, by rail and steamboats ................. 7 days
Around the World in 80 Days |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: should arrive at a vague sense that Cocker's was--well, attractive;
easier, smoother, sociably brighter, slightly more picturesque, in
short more propitious in general to his little affairs, than any
other establishment just thereabouts. She was quite aware that
they couldn't be, in so huddled a hole, particularly quick; but she
found her account in the slowness--she certainly could bear it if
HE could. The great pang was that just thereabouts post-offices
were so awfully thick. She was always seeing him in imagination in
other places and with other girls. But she would defy any other
girl to follow him as she followed. And though they weren't, for
so many reasons, quick at Cocker's, she could hurry for him when,
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