| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Polity of Athenians and Lacedaemonians by Xenophon: by dint of constant intercourse they may be all the better able to
consult in common in case of need. Besides the polemarch three other
members of the peers[2] share the royal quarters, mess, etc. The duty
of these is to attend to all matters of commisariat,[3] in order that
the king and the rest may have unbroken leisure to attend to affairs
of actual warfare.
[1] I.e. "the Thirty." See "Ages." i. 7; "Hell." III. iv. 2; Plut.
"Ages." 6 (Clough, iv. 6); Aristot. "Pol." ii. 9, 29.
[2] For these {oi omoioi}, see "Cyrop." I. v. 5; "Hell." III. iii. 5.
[3] Lit. "supplies and necessaries."
But I will resume at a somewhat higher point and describe the manner
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis: excited, and they all crowds around and asts me
how, except two as is holding onto Elmira's hands
which sets moaning in a chair. And they all asts
me questions as to what I seen him do, which if
they hadn't I wouldn't have told em the lies I did.
But they egged me on to it.
Says one woman: "Danny, you seen him do it
in the blacksmith shop?"
I nodded.
"But how did he get in?" sings out another
woman. "The door was locked on the outside with
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from An Historical Mystery by Honore de Balzac: nobility, had turned the park and gardens to profit, and used their
two hundred acres of grass and woodland as pasturage for horses and
fuel for the family. Thanks to his severe economy the countess, on
coming of age, had recovered by his investments in the State funds a
competent fortune. In 1798 she possessed about twenty thousand francs
a year from those sources, on which, in fact, some dividends were
still due, and twelve thousand francs a year from the rentals at Cinq-
Cygne, which had lately been renewed at a notable increase. Monsieur
and Madame d'Hauteserre had provided for their old age by the purchase
of an annuity of three thousand francs in the Tontines Lafarge. That
fragment of their former means did not enable them to live elsewhere
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