| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Commission in Lunacy by Honore de Balzac: amusement, while their father keeps them at work from morning till
night at that wretched history of China."
"You give handsome balls; they would enjoy them, but they might
acquire a taste for dissipation. However, their father might send them
to you once or twice in the course of the winter."
"He brings them here on my birthday and on New Year's Day. On those
days M. d'Espard does me the favor of dining here with them."
"It is very singular behaviour," said the judge, with an air of
conviction. "Have you ever seen this Dame Jeanrenaud?"
"My brother-in-law one day, out of interest in his brother----"
"Ah! monsieur is M. d'Espard's brother?" said the lawyer, interrupting
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Riverman by Stewart Edward White: and sat talking with the youngster as long as his conscience would
permit. Then he retired to the library, where, for a long time, he
sat in twilight and loneliness. Finally, when he could no longer
distinguish objects across the room, he arose with a sigh, lit the
lamp, and settled himself to read.
The last of the twilight drained from the world, and the window
panes turned a burnished black. Through the half-open sashes sucked
a warm little breeze, swaying the long lace curtains back and forth.
The hum of lawn-sprinklers and the chirping of crickets and tree-
frogs came with it.
One by one the lawn-sprinklers fell silent. Gradually there
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lesser Hippias by Plato: HIPPIAS: Yes, he and no one else.
SOCRATES: Then the good and wise geometer has this double power in the
highest degree; and if there be a man who is false about diagrams the good
man will be he, for he is able to be false; whereas the bad is unable, and
for this reason is not false, as has been admitted.
HIPPIAS: True.
SOCRATES: Once more--let us examine a third case; that of the astronomer,
in whose art, again, you, Hippias, profess to be a still greater proficient
than in the preceding--do you not?
HIPPIAS: Yes, I am.
SOCRATES: And does not the same hold of astronomy?
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