| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Whirligigs by O. Henry: You can't pull my leg with an old sophism with whiskers
on it. You quote Marx and Hyndman and Kautsky -
what are they? -- shines! Tolstoi? -- his garret is full of
rats. I put it to you over the home-plate that the idea
of a cooperative commonwealth and an abolishment of
competitive systems simply takes the rag off the bush and
gives me hyperesthesia of the roopteetoop! The skoo-
kum house for yours!
I stopped a few yards away and took out my little
notebook.
"Oh, come ahead," said Rivington, somewhat ner-
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Macbeth by William Shakespeare: Macb. 'Tis better thee without, then he within.
Is he dispatch'd?
Mur. My Lord his throat is cut, that I did for him
Mac. Thou art the best o'th' Cut-throats,
Yet hee's good that did the like for Fleans:
If thou did'st it, thou art the Non-pareill
Mur. Most Royall Sir
Fleans is scap'd
Macb. Then comes my Fit againe:
I had else beene perfect;
Whole as the Marble, founded as the Rocke,
Macbeth |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: Dem. 569. 1; "words of command"; Dion. H. "De Comp." 248,
"instructions, precepts."
[14] {enthumemata}.
Nor would I have you envy or imitate those either who recklessly
pursue the path of self-aggrandisement,[15] whether in private or in
public life; but consider well[16] that the best of men,[17] the true
nobility, are discovered by their virtues;[18] they are a laborious
upwards-striving race; whilst the base are in evil plight[19] and are
discovered by their demerits.[20] Since in proportion as they rob the
private citizen of his means and despoil the state[21] they are less
serviceable with a view to the public safety than any private
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