| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton: Eliza.
"Well, well, Miss Bunner," she murmured, jerking her chin in
the direction of the retreating figures, "I'd no idea your sister
was keeping company. On'y to think!"
Ann Eliza, roused from a state of dreamy beatitude, turned her
timid eyes on the dress-maker.
"Oh, you're mistaken, Miss Mellins. We don't har'ly know Mr.
Ramy."
Miss Mellins smiled incredulously. "You go 'long, Miss
Bunner. I guess there'll be a wedding somewheres round
here before spring, and I'll be real offended if I ain't asked to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert: horns, which stood up on the edge of the helmets, some thought that
they could perceive a herd of oxen; others, deceived by the motion of
the cloaks, pretended that they could distinguish wings, and those who
had travelled a good deal shrugged their shoulders and explained
everything by the illusions of the mirage. Nevertheless something of
enormous size continued to advance. Little vapours, as subtle as the
breath, ran across the surface of the desert; the sun, which was
higher now, shone more strongly: a harsh light, which seemed to
vibrate, threw back the depths of the sky, and permeating objects,
rendered distance incalculable. The immense plain expanded in every
direction beyond the limits of vision; and the almost insensible
Salammbo |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Charmides by Plato: Republic (such is the shifting character of the Platonic philosophy) is
given as the definition, not of temperance, but of justice; (5) The
impatience which is exhibited by Socrates of any definition of temperance
in which an element of science or knowledge is not included; (6) The
beginning of metaphysics and logic implied in the two questions: whether
there can be a science of science, and whether the knowledge of what you
know is the same as the knowledge of what you do not know; and also in the
distinction between 'what you know' and 'that you know,' (Greek;) here too
is the first conception of an absolute self-determined science (the claims
of which, however, are disputed by Socrates, who asks cui bono?) as well as
the first suggestion of the difficulty of the abstract and concrete, and
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