| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson: often, at city gates, he might stop to contemplate the gibbet
with its swinging bodies, and hug himself on his escape.
(1) CHRON. SCAND., p. 338.
How long he stayed at Roussillon, how far he became the
protege of the Bourbons, to whom that town belonged, or when
it was that he took part, under the auspices of Charles of
Orleans, in a rhyming tournament to be referred to once again
in the pages of the present volume, are matters that still
remain in darkness, in spite of M. Longnon's diligent
rummaging among archives. When we next find him, in summer
1461, alas! he is once more in durance: this time at Meun-
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Symposium by Plato: his appearing he and the host jest a little; the question is then asked by
Pausanias, one of the guests, 'What shall they do about drinking? as they
had been all well drunk on the day before, and drinking on two successive
days is such a bad thing.' This is confirmed by the authority of
Eryximachus the physician, who further proposes that instead of listening
to the flute-girl and her 'noise' they shall make speeches in honour of
love, one after another, going from left to right in the order in which
they are reclining at the table. All of them agree to this proposal, and
Phaedrus, who is the 'father' of the idea, which he has previously
communicated to Eryximachus, begins as follows:--
He descants first of all upon the antiquity of love, which is proved by the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London: Monday, don't you?"
He nodded his head and grinned.
"Then you won't have another chance to get a mess of those trout you just
'dote' on."
But he did not notice the sneer. "Oh, I don't know," he chuckled. "I'm going
up to-morrow to try pretty hard."
Thus was assurance made doubly sure, and I went back to my house hugging
myself with rapture.
Early next morning I saw him go by with a dip-net and gunnysack, and Bellona
trotting at his heels. I knew where he was bound, and cut out by the back
pasture and climbed through the underbrush to the top of the mountain. Keeping
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