| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Schoolmistress and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov: though pleasant sadness. It was a sadness vague and undefined as
a dream. For some reason I felt sorry for myself, for my
grandfather and for the Armenian, even for the girl herself, and
I had a feeling as though we all four had lost something
important and essential to life which we should never find again.
My grandfather, too, grew melancholy; he talked no more about
manure or about oats, but sat silent, looking pensively at
Masha.
After tea my grandfather lay down for a nap while I went out of
the house into the porch. The house, like all the houses in the
Armenian village stood in the full sun; there was not a tree, not
The Schoolmistress and Other Stories |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Anabasis by Xenophon: March 399 B.C.
PREPARER'S NOTE
This was typed from Dakyns' series, "The Works of Xenophon," a
four-volume set. The complete list of Xenophon's works (though
there is doubt about some of these) is:
Work Number of books
The Anabasis 7
The Hellenica 7
The Cyropaedia 8
The Memorabilia 4
The Symposium 1
Anabasis |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: Many men have
related hideous things, not mentioned in print, which happened
on the battlefields of the Great War. Some of these things have
made me faint, others have convulsed me with devastating nausea,
while still others have made me tremble and look behind me in
the dark; yet despite the worst of them I believe I can myself
relate the most hideous thing of all -- the shocking, the unnatural,
the unbelievable horror from the shadows.
In 1915 I was a physician
with the rank of First Lieutenant in a Canadian regiment in Flanders,
one of many Americans to precede the government itself into the
Herbert West: Reanimator |
