| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll: look it over thoroughly just now--and that shows that there are
three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday
presents--'
`Certainly,' said Alice.
`And only ONE for birthday presents, you know. There's glory
for you!'
`I don't know what you mean by "glory,"' Alice said.
Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. `Of course you don't--
till I tell you. I meant "there's a nice knock-down argument for
you!"'
`But "glory" doesn't mean "a nice knock-down argument,"' Alice
Through the Looking-Glass |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Lesson of the Master by Henry James: minutes. That story came out as one read, in short instalments -
it was excusable that one's analogies should be somewhat
professional - and the text was a style considerably involved, a
language not easy to translate at sight. There were shades of
meaning in it and a vague perspective of history which receded as
you advanced. Two facts Paul had particularly heeded. The first
of these was that he liked the measured mask much better at
inscrutable rest than in social agitation; its almost convulsive
smile above all displeased him (as much as any impression from that
source could), whereas the quiet face had a charm that grew in
proportion as stillness settled again. The change to the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Bucolics by Virgil: MOPSUS
How, how repay thee for a song so rare?
For not the whispering south-wind on its way
So much delights me, nor wave-smitten beach,
Nor streams that race adown their bouldered beds.
MENALCAS
First this frail hemlock-stalk to you I give,
Which taught me "Corydon with love was fired
For fair Alexis," ay, and this beside,
"Who owns the flock?- Meliboeus?"
MOPSUS
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