| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wife, et al by Anton Chekhov: away.
VII
It had been a very troubled day.
Dymov had a very bad headache; he had no breakfast, and did not
go to the hospital, but spent the whole time lying on his sofa in
the study. Olga Ivanovna went as usual at midday to see
Ryabovsky, to show him her still-life sketch, and to ask him why
he had not been to see her the evening before. The sketch seemed
to her worthless, and she had painted it only in order to have an
additional reason for going to the artist.
She went in to him without ringing, and as she was taking off her
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Eryxias by Platonic Imitator: not wealth in our eyes, for we could not employ it, as we can silver, to
procure what we need, and therefore it is of no use to us.
ERASISTRATUS: True.
SOCRATES: What is useful to us, then, is wealth, and what is useless to us
is not wealth?
But how do you mean, Socrates? said Eryxias, interrupting. Do we not
employ in our intercourse with one another speech and violence (?) and
various other things? These are useful and yet they are not wealth.
SOCRATES: Clearly we have not yet answered the question, What is wealth?
That wealth must be useful, to be wealth at all,--thus much is acknowledged
by every one. But what particular thing is wealth, if not all things? Let
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Rezanov by Gertrude Atherton: her work (and the delight that rose in her breast
from her voice).
"Well?"
"Why should you hate him?"
"Do you ask me that, Concha, when he makes a
fence of himself about you, and his fine eyes--prac-
tised is nearer the mark--look at no one else?"
"But why should that cause you jealousy? He
is a man of the world, accustomed to make himself
agreeable, and I am the daughter of the Com-
mandante."
Rezanov |
