| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Anabasis by Xenophon: to aid Cyrus, who enlisted Greek help to try and
take the throne from Artaxerxes, and the ensuing
return of the Greeks, in which Xenophon played a
leading role. This occurred between 401 B.C. and
March 399 B.C.
PREPARER'S NOTE
This was typed from Dakyns' series, "The Works of Xenophon," a
four-volume set. The complete list of Xenophon's works (though
there is doubt about some of these) is:
Work Number of books
The Anabasis 7
Anabasis |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Vailima Letters by Robert Louis Stevenson: not think it is possible to have fewer illusions than I. I
sometimes wish I had more. They are amusing. But I cannot
take myself seriously as an artist; the limitations are so
obvious. I did take myself seriously as a workman of old,
but my practice has fallen off. I am now an idler and
cumberer of the ground; it may be excused to me perhaps by
twenty years of industry and ill-health, which have taken the
cream off the milk.
As I was writing this last sentence, I heard the strident
rain drawing near across the forest, and by the time I was
come to the word 'cream' it burst upon my roof, and has since
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: distant peeks, the rich blue masses of the Pyrenees. For a long
time we said nothing, and then she began talking.
"Life's a rum Go, George!" she began. "Who would have thought,
when I used to darn your stockings at old Wimblehurst, that this
would be the end of the story? It seems far away now--that
little shop, his and my first home. The glow of the bottles, the
big coloured bottles! Do you remember how the light shone on the
mahogany drawers? The little gilt letters! Ol Amjig, and
Snap! I can remember it all--bright and shining--like a Dutch
picture. Real! And yesterday. And here we are in a dream. You
a man--and me an old woman, George. And poor little Teddy, who
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