| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from O Pioneers! by Willa Cather: and not to come out. What is the matter with
you?"
"My kitten, sister, my kitten! A man put
her out, and a dog chased her up there." His
forefinger, projecting from the sleeve of his coat,
pointed up to the wretched little creature on
the pole.
"Oh, Emil! Didn't I tell you she'd get us
into trouble of some kind, if you brought her?
O Pioneers! |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain: got the idea that such a weapon could possibly be
counterfeited to its injury is an imposing mystery and
will always remain so, perhaps. Tom contrived to
scarify the cupboard with it, and was arranging to begin
on the bureau, when he was called off to dress for
Sunday-school.
Mary gave him a tin basin of water and a piece of
soap, and he went outside the door and set the basin
on a little bench there; then he dipped the soap in
the water and laid it down; turned up his sleeves;
poured out the water on the ground, gently, and then
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Charmides by Plato: men were clouded by controversy, and philosophical terms had not yet
acquired a fixed meaning. I have just said that Plato is to be interpreted
by his context; and I do not deny that in some passages, especially in the
Republic and Laws, the context is at a greater distance than would be
allowable in a modern writer. But we are not therefore justified in
connecting passages from different parts of his writings, or even from the
same work, which he has not himself joined. We cannot argue from the
Parmenides to the Philebus, or from either to the Sophist, or assume that
the Parmenides, the Philebus, and the Timaeus were 'written
simultaneously,' or 'were intended to be studied in the order in which they
are here named (J. of Philol.) We have no right to connect statements
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