| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lesser Hippias by Plato: what he thinks about these two heroes, and which of them he maintains to be
the better; he has already told us in the course of his exhibition many
things of various kinds about Homer and divers other poets.
EUDICUS: I am sure that Hippias will be delighted to answer anything which
you would like to ask; tell me, Hippias, if Socrates asks you a question,
will you answer him?
HIPPIAS: Indeed, Eudicus, I should be strangely inconsistent if I refused
to answer Socrates, when at each Olympic festival, as I went up from my
house at Elis to the temple of Olympia, where all the Hellenes were
assembled, I continually professed my willingness to perform any of the
exhibitions which I had prepared, and to answer any questions which any one
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Rezanov by Gertrude Atherton: heard a suppressed sob, and felt a touch on her
skirt. She looked round and saw Rosa, kneeling
close to the church. For a moment she continued
to stare, hardly comprehending, in the intense con-
centration of her faculties, that tangible beings,
other than herself and Rezanov, still moved on the
earth. Then her mind relaxed. She was normal
in a normal world once more. She stooped and
patted the hands clasping her skirts.
"Poor Rosa!" she said. "Poor Rosa!"
Over the intense green of islands and hills were
Rezanov |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson: knew how thick the accusations fly in this South Sea world. I make
no doubt my own character is something illustrious; or if not yet,
there is a good time coming.
But all our resources have not of late been Pacific. We have had
enlightened society: La Farge the painter, and your friend Henry
Adams: a great privilege - would it might endure. I would go
oftener to see them, but the place is awkward to reach on
horseback. I had to swim my horse the last time I went to dinner;
and as I have not yet returned the clothes I had to borrow, I dare
not return in the same plight: it seems inevitable - as soon as
the wash comes in, I plump straight into the American consul's
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