| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Extracts From Adam's Diary by Mark Twain: tittered and blushed. I had never seen a person titter and blush
before, and to me it seemed unbecoming and idiotic. She said I
would soon know how it was myself. This was correct. Hungry as
I was, I laid down the apple half eaten--certainly the best one I
ever saw, considering the lateness of the season--and arrayed
myself in the discarded boughs and branches, and then spoke to her
with some severity and ordered her to go and get some more and not
make such a spectacle of herself. She did it, and after this we
crept down to where the wild-beast battle had been, and collected
some skins, and I made her patch together a couple of suits proper
for public occasions. They are uncomfortable, it is true, but
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas: in review before me, and if I have painfully nailed them
into my brain, they are there now so well riveted, that,
from the office of M. Letellier, who is sober, to the little
secret largesses of M. Fouquet, who is prodigal, I could
recite, figure by figure, all the money that is spent in
France from Marseilles to Cherbourg."
"Then, you would have me throw all my money into the coffers
of the king!" cried Mazarin, ironically; and from whom, at
the same time, the gout forced painful moans. "Surely the
king would reproach me with nothing, but he would laugh at
me, while squandering my millions, and with good reason."
Ten Years Later |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Sophist by Plato: say, attracts you, I will not forestall the work of time. Let me suppose,
then, that things which are said to be made by nature are the work of
divine art, and that things which are made by man out of these are works of
human art. And so there are two kinds of making and production, the one
human and the other divine.
THEAETETUS: True.
STRANGER: Then, now, subdivide each of the two sections which we have
already.
THEAETETUS: How do you mean?
STRANGER: I mean to say that you should make a vertical division of
production or invention, as you have already made a lateral one.
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