| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Out of Time's Abyss by Edgar Rice Burroughs: from the smoldering embers of the building they had helped to
fashion for the housing of their party? Who could say!
Thirty precious minutes that seemed as many hours to the
impatient men were consumed in locating a precarious way from the
summit to the base of the cliffs that bounded the plateau upon
the south, and then once again they struck off upon level ground
toward their goal. The closer they approached the fort the
greater became their apprehension that all would not be well.
They pictured the barracks deserted or the small company
massacred and the buildings in ashes. It was almost in a frenzy
of fear that they broke through the final fringe of jungle and
Out of Time's Abyss |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Selected Writings of Guy De Maupassant by Guy De Maupassant: who even pretended to turn her head aside, and not to see them.
But Madame Dufour, who was rather bolder, tempted by feminine
curiosity, looked at them every moment, and no doubt compared
them with the secret unsightliness of her husband. She had
squatted herself on the ground with her legs tucked under her,
after the manner of tailors, and kept wriggling about
continually, under the pretext that ants were crawling about her
somewhere. Monsieur Dufour, whom the politeness of the strangers
had put into rather a bad temper, was trying to find a
comfortable position, which he did not, however, succeed in
doing, while the youth with the yellow hair was eating as
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Hiero by Xenophon: there to prevent the application of the principle to matters politic
in general?[13]
[5] Or, "current incidents bear witness to the beauty of the
principle."
[6] {emin}. The author makes Simonides talk as an Athenian.
[7] Lit. "when we wish our sacred choirs to compete."
[8] Or, "magistrate"; at Athens the Archon Eponymos. See Boeckh, "P.
E. A." p. 454 foll. Al. the {athlethetai}. See Pollux, viii. 93;
cf. Aeschin. "c. Ctes." 13.
[9] Or more correctly at Athens the choragoi = leaders of the chorus.
[10] i.e. the choreutai.
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