| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Statesman by Plato: division.
YOUNG SOCRATES: At what point?
STRANGER: May not all rulers be supposed to command for the sake of
producing something?
YOUNG SOCRATES: Certainly.
STRANGER: Nor is there any difficulty in dividing the things produced into
two classes.
YOUNG SOCRATES: How would you divide them?
STRANGER: Of the whole class, some have life and some are without life.
YOUNG SOCRATES: True.
STRANGER: And by the help of this distinction we may make, if we please, a
Statesman |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Figure in the Carpet by Henry James: he only said I hadn't got the right letter. But his amusement was
over; I could see he was bored. There was nevertheless something
else I had absolutely to learn. "Should you be able, pen in hand,
to state it clearly yourself - to name it, phrase it, formulate
it?"
"Oh," he almost passionately sighed, "if I were only, pen in hand,
one of YOU chaps!"
"That would be a great chance for you of course. But why should
you despise us chaps for not doing what you can't do yourself?"
"Can't do?" He opened his eyes. "Haven't I done it in twenty
volumes? I do it in my way," he continued. "Go YOU and don't do
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Spirit of the Border by Zane Grey: "Here--when--high--sun."
With that he bounded lightly past them, and loped off with an even, swinging
stride.
"What did he mean?" asked Jim, almost sure he had not heard the runner aright.
"He meant that a party of white men are approaching, and will be here by noon.
I never knew an Indian runner to carry unreliable information. We have joyful
news, both in regard to your brother, and the Village of Peace. Let us go in
to tell the others."
The Huron runner's report proved to be correct. Shortly before noon signals
from Indian scouts proclaimed the approach of a band of white men. Evidently
Girty's forces had knowledge beforehand of the proximity of this band, for the
The Spirit of the Border |
