| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence: She went to the back of the chair, and plodded side by side with the
keeper, shoving up the pink path. She did not care who saw.
'Why not let me wait, and fetch Field? He is strong enough for the
job,' said Clifford.
'It's so near,' she panted.
But both she and Mellors wiped the sweat from their faces when they
came to the top. It was curious, but this bit of work together had
brought them much closer than they had been before.
'Thanks so much, Mellors,' said Clifford, when they were at the house
door. 'I must get a different sort of motor, that's all. Won't you go
to the kitchen and have a meal? It must be about time.'
Lady Chatterley's Lover |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from On Horsemanship by Xenophon: [1] Reading {otan . . . paradexetai . . . os anabesomenos}. Or,
reading {otan paradexetai ton ippea (sc. o. ippos) ws
anabesomenon}, transl. "the horse has been brought round ready for
mounting."
[2] So Courier, "la muserolle." It might be merely a stitched leather
strap or made of a chain in part, which rattled; as
{khrusokhalinon patagon psalion} (Aristoph. "Peace," 155) implies.
"Curb" would be misleading.
[3] "Near the withers."
[4] Or, "as soon as he has got the springing poise preliminary to
mounting."
On Horsemanship |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: some time, coming OUR way." Yet he was troubled by the suspicion
of subtleties on his companion's part that spoiled the straight
view. He couldn't understand people's hating what they liked or
liking what they hated; above all it hurt him somewhere--for he had
his private delicacies--to see anything BUT money made out of his
betters. To be too enquiring, or in any other way too free, at the
expense of the gentry was vaguely wrong; the only thing that was
distinctly right was to be prosperous at any price. Wasn't it just
because they were up there aloft that they were lucrative? He
concluded at any rate by saying to his young friend: "If it's
improper for you to remain at Cocker's, then that falls in exactly
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