| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Economist by Xenophon: asked): it would not be very easy to discover efficient craftsmen of
all the arts, and quite impossible to become skilled in all one's
self. So, please, confine yourself to the nobler branches of knowledge
as men regard them, such as it will best befit me to pursue with
devotion; be so good as to point me out these and their performers,
and, above all, contribute as far as in you lies the aid of your own
personal instruction.
Soc. A good suggestion, Critobulus, for the base mechanic arts, so
called, have got a bad name; and what is more, are held in ill repute
by civilised communities, and not unreasonably; seeing they are the
ruin of the bodies of all concerned in them, workers and overseers
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Master and Man by Leo Tolstoy: slanting crupper, who stood alone in the shed. 'Now then, now
then, there's time enough. Let me water you first,' he went
on, speaking to the horse just as to someone who understood the
words he was using, and having whisked the dusty, grooved back
of the well-fed young stallion with the skirt of his coat, he
put a bridle on his handsome head, straightened his ears and
forelock, and having taken off his halter led him out to water.
Picking his way out of the dung-strewn stable, Mukhorty
frisked, and making play with his hind leg pretended that he
meant to kick Nikita, who was running at a trot beside him to
the pump.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Glinda of Oz by L. Frank Baum: live near the Emerald City, that I do not often find
time to make long journeys."
"Well," replied Dorothy, "we'll prob'bly find out a
lot on this trip, and we'll learn all about the
Skeezers and Flatheads, anyhow. Time doesn't make much
diff'rence in the Land of Oz, 'cause we don't grow up,
or get old, or become sick and die, as they do other
places; so, if we explore one place at a time, we'll
by-an'-by know all about every nook and corner in Oz."
Dorothy wore around her waist the Nome King's Magic
Belt, which protected her from harm, and the Magic Ring
Glinda of Oz |
