| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter by Beatrix Potter: recently open; the cobwebs were
disturbed, and there were fresh dirty
footmarks upon the windowsill.
The room inside was so dark that
at first they could make out nothing;
but they could hear a noise--a
slow deep regular snoring grunt.
And as their eyes became accustomed
to the darkness, they perceived
that somebody was asleep
on Mr. Tod's bed, curled up under
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from On Revenues by Xenophon: [63] I adopt Zurborg's correction, {prosphora} for {eisphora}, as
obviously right. See above, iv. 23.
If, at this point, I may assume my proposals to have been carried into
effect, I think I can promise, not only that our city shall be
relieved from a financial strain, but that she shall make a great
stride in orderliness and in tactical organisation, she shall grow in
martial spirit and readiness for war. I anticipate that those who are
under orders to go through gymnastic training will devote themselves
with a new zeal to the details of the training school, now that they
will receive a larger maintenance whilst[64] under the orders of the
trainer in the torch race. So again those on garrison duty in the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad: "He understood how to ingratiate himself with the natives. He
would arrive in some settlement up a river, make a present of a
cheap carbine or a pair of shoddy binoculars, or something of that
sort, to the Rajah, or the head-man, or the principal trader; and
on the strength of that gift, ask for a house, posing mysteriously
as a very special trader. He would spin them no end of yarns, live
on the fat of the land, for a while, and then do some mean swindle
or other - or else they would get tired of him and ask him to quit.
And he would go off meekly with an air of injured innocence. Funny
life. Yet, he never got hurt somehow. I've heard of the Rajah of
Dongala giving him fifty dollars' worth of trade goods and paying
Within the Tides |
