| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Hamlet by William Shakespeare: peace: the Clowne shall make those laugh whose lungs
are tickled a'th' sere: and the Lady shall say her minde
freely; or the blanke Verse shall halt for't: what Players
are they?
Rosin. Euen those you were wont to take delight in
the Tragedians of the City
Ham. How chances it they trauaile? their residence
both in reputation and profit was better both
wayes
Rosin. I thinke their Inhibition comes by the meanes
of the late Innouation?
Hamlet |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Crisis in Russia by Arthur Ransome: enrolled to fight on the other side, indignantly re-desert
when opportunity offers. In this way the armies of Denikin
and Yudenitch swelled like mushrooms and decayed with
similar rapidity. Military events of this kind, however
spectacular they may seem abroad, do not have the political
effect that might be expected. I was in Moscow at the worst
moment of the crisis in 1919 when practically everybody
outside the Government believed that Petrograd had already
fallen, and I could not but realize that the Government was
stronger then than it had been in February of the same year,
when it had a series of victories and peace with the Allies
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Apology by Xenophon: "Nay, bless my soul," exclaimed Meletus, "I know those whom you
persuaded to obey yourself rather than the fathers who begat
them."[39]
[39] Cf. "Mem." I. ii. 49.
"I admit it," Socrates replied, "in the case of education, for they
know that I have made the matter a study; and with regard to health a
man prefers to obey his doctor rather than his parents; in the public
assembly the citizens of Athens, I presume, obey those whose arguments
exhibit the soundest wisdom rather than their own relations. And is it
not the case that, in your choice of generals, you set your fathers
and brothers, and, bless me! your own selves aside, by comparison with
The Apology |
