| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Breaking Point by Mary Roberts Rinehart: in the wall on the roll of honor. Small as it was, this was his
world.
Half smiling, he glanced about. He did not realize that behind
their bows and greetings there was something new that day, something
not so much unkind as questioning.
Outside in the street he tucked his aunt, Mrs. Crosby, against the
spring wind, and waited at the wheel of the car while David entered
with the deliberation of a man accustomed to the sagging of his old
side-bar buggy under his weight. Long ago Dick had dropped the
titular "uncle," and as David he now addressed him.
"You're going to play some golf this afternoon, David," he said
The Breaking Point |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Cavalry General by Xenophon: of his intention." Cf. Aristot. "H. A." ix. 37.
[27] Cf. Aristoph. "Knights," 244 (Demosthenes calls to the
hipparchs[?]):
{andres eggus . all' amunou, kapanastrephou palin}.
IX
To read these observations over a few times will be sufficient, but
for giving them effect the officer will need perpetually to act as
circumstances require.[1] He must take in the situation at a glance,
and carry out unflinchingly whatever is expedient for the moment. To
set down in writing everything that he must do, is not a whit more
possible than to know the future as a whole.[2] But of all hints and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Street of Seven Stars by Mary Roberts Rinehart: "So do you."
"If only something comes of it! It's curious, isn't it, when you
think of it? You and I meeting here in the center of Europe and
both of us working our heads off for something that may never pan
out."
There was something reminiscent about that to Harmony. It was not
until after young McLean had gone that she recalled. It was
almost word for word what Peter had said to her in the
coffee-house the night they met. She thought it very curious, the
coincidence, and pondered it, being ignorant of the fact that it
is always a matter for wonder when the man meets the woman, no
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