| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Alcibiades I by Plato: not?
ALCIBIADES: Clearly, if I have such a fear of them.
SOCRATES: And do you think that you will sustain any injury if you take
care of yourself?
ALCIBIADES: No, I shall be greatly benefited.
SOCRATES: And this is one very important respect in which that notion of
yours is bad.
ALCIBIADES: True.
SOCRATES: In the next place, consider that what you say is probably false.
ALCIBIADES: How so?
SOCRATES: Let me ask you whether better natures are likely to be found in
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from My Aunt Margaret's Mirror by Walter Scott: him with the squalling children, and take care all was handsome
and in good style about the house? I declare I think Sir Philip
would have made a very domestic man, with a woman who knew how to
manage him."
Now these fair critics, in raising their profound edifice of
domestic felicity, did not recollect that the corner-stone was
wanting, and that to receive good company with good cheer, the
means of the banquet ought to have been furnished by Sir Philip,
whose income (dilapidated as it was) was not equal to the display
of the hospitality required, and at the same time to the supply
of the good knight's MENUS PLAISIRS. So, in spite of all that
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Walden by Henry David Thoreau: which had also taken shelter here from the rain, stalked about the
room like members of the family, too humanized, methought, to roast
well. They stood and looked in my eye or pecked at my shoe
significantly. Meanwhile my host told me his story, how hard he
worked "bogging" for a neighboring farmer, turning up a meadow with
a spade or bog hoe at the rate of ten dollars an acre and the use of
the land with manure for one year, and his little broad-faced son
worked cheerfully at his father's side the while, not knowing how
poor a bargain the latter had made. I tried to help him with my
experience, telling him that he was one of my nearest neighbors, and
that I too, who came a-fishing here, and looked like a loafer, was
Walden |
