| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair: would be obstinate and refuse to see it, and Jurgis, alas, was not always
patient! He forgot how he himself had been blind, a short time ago--
after the fashion of all crusaders since the original ones, who set out
to spread the gospel of Brotherhood by force of arms.
Chapter 9
One of the first consequences of the discovery of the union was that
Jurgis became desirous of learning English. He wanted to know what
was going on at the meetings, and to be able to take part in them,
and so he began to look about him, and to try to pick up words.
The children, who were at school, and learning fast, would teach him
a few; and a friend loaned him a little book that had some in it,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Herodias by Gustave Flaubert: prisoner to be silent.
But Iaokanann replied: "I shall cry aloud like a savage bear, like the
wild ass, like a woman in travail! The punishment of heaven has
already visited itself upon thy incest! May God inflict thee with the
sterility of mules!"
At these words, a sound of suppressed laughter arose here and there
among the listeners.
Vitellius had remained close to the opening of the dungeon while
Iaokanann was speaking. His interpreter, in impassive tones,
translated into the Roman tongue all the threats and invectives that
rolled up from the depths of the gloomy prison. The tetrarch and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from On Horsemanship by Xenophon: bathing, friction, oil. See Pollux, i. 201.
V
It is the duty of a horseman, as we think, to have his groom trained
thoroughly in all that concerns the treatment of the horse. In the
first place, then, the groom should know that he is never to knot the
halter[1] at the point where the headstall is attached to the horse's
head. By constantly rubbing his head against the manger, if the halter
does not sit quite loose about his ears, the horse will be constantly
injuring himself;[2] and with sores so set up, it is inevitable that
he should show peevishness, while being bitted or rubbed down.
[1] Lit. "by which the horse is tied to the manger"; "licol d'ecurie."
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