| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Rezanov by Gertrude Atherton: of nature.
The priests were as well pleased with the pieces
of fine English cloth; and as their own homespun
robes rasped like hair shirts, they silently but uni-
formly congratulated themselves that the color was
brown.
Father Abella turned to Rezanov, his saturnine
features relaxed.
"We are deeply grateful to your excellency, and
our prayers shall follow you always. Never have
we received presents so timely and so magnificent.
Rezanov |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Maitre Cornelius by Honore de Balzac: daybreak, but the events of the day and the agitations of the night
did not allow him to keep faith with himself. Happiness is forgetful.
Cornelius no longer seemed formidable to the young man when he threw
himself on the pallet where so many poor wretches had wakened to their
doom; and this light-hearted heedlessness proved his ruin. While the
king's silversmith rode back from Plessis, accompanied by the grand
provost and his redoubtable archers. The false Goulenoire was being
watched by the old sister, seated on the corkscrew staircase oblivious
of the cold, and knitting socks for Cornelius.
The young man continued to dream of the secret delights of that
charming night, ignorant of the danger that was galloping towards him.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Alcibiades I by Plato: SOCRATES: Ask yourself; are you in any perplexity about things of which
you are ignorant? You know, for example, that you know nothing about the
preparation of food.
ALCIBIADES: Very true.
SOCRATES: And do you think and perplex yourself about the preparation of
food: or do you leave that to some one who understands the art?
ALCIBIADES: The latter.
SOCRATES: Or if you were on a voyage, would you bewilder yourself by
considering whether the rudder is to be drawn inwards or outwards, or do
you leave that to the pilot, and do nothing?
ALCIBIADES: It would be the concern of the pilot.
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