| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane: to permit even a comment upon their uproar.
He never successfully concluded the sentence.
But at last the guns stopped, and among the
men in the rifle pits rumors again flew, like birds,
but they were now for the most part black
creatures who flapped their wings drearily near
to the ground and refused to rise on any wings of
hope. The men's faces grew doleful from the
interpreting of omens. Tales of hesitation and
uncertainty on the part of those high in place and
responsibility came to their ears. Stories of
The Red Badge of Courage |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: And surer bind this knot of amity,
The Earl of Armagnac, near knit to Charles,
A man of great authority in France,
Proffers his only daughter to your grace
In marriage, with a large and sumptuous dowry.
KING.
Marriage, uncle! alas, my years are young!
And fitter is my study and my books
Than wanton dalliance with a paramour.
Yet call the ambassadors; and, as you please,
So let them have their answers every one:
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Economist by Xenophon: Eleutherios,[1] and as he appeared to be at leisure, I went up to him
and, sitting down by his side, accosted him: How is this, Ischomachus?
you seated here, you who are so little wont to be at leisure? As a
rule, when I see you, you are doing something, or at any rate not
sitting idle in the market-place.
[1] "The god of freedom, or of freed men." See Plat. "Theag." 259 A.
The scholiast on Aristoph. "Plutus" 1176 identifies the god with
Zeus Soter. See Plut. "Dem." 859 (Clough, v. 30).
Nor would you see me now so sitting, Socrates (he answered), but that
I promised to meet some strangers, friends of mine,[2] at this place.
[2] "Foreign friends."
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