| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Iliad by Homer: dogs dared not fasten on the lions but stood by barking and
keeping out of harm's way.
The god wrought also a pasture in a fair mountain dell, and a
large flock of sheep, with a homestead and huts, and sheltered
sheepfolds.
Furthermore he wrought a green, like that which Daedalus once
made in Cnossus for lovely Ariadne. Hereon there danced youths
and maidens whom all would woo, with their hands on one another's
wrists. The maidens wore robes of light linen, and the youths
well woven shirts that were slightly oiled. The girls were
crowned with garlands, while the young men had daggers of gold
The Iliad |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Economist by Xenophon: "building," "smithying," "metal-working," and so forth, the name of a
particular kind of knowledge or science?
[1] By "economist" we now generally understand "policital economist,"
but the use of the word as referring to domestic economy, the
subject matter of the treatise, would seem to be legitimate.
[2] "The master."
[3] Lit. "the management of a household and estate." See Plat. "Rep."
407 B; Aristot. "Eth. N." v. 6; "Pol." i. 3.
[4] See "Mem." I. iii. 8; "Symp." p. 292.
Crit. Yes, I think so.
Soc. And as, in the case of the arts just named, we can state the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: it into my head to tell them that I knew some one of whom I had
just caught a glimpse as he went out by a back staircase, a man
who had given the Countess a kiss at the end of a passage."
"Who was it?" both women asked together.
"An old man who lives at the rate of two louis a month in the
Faubourg Saint-Marceau, where I, a poor student, lodge likewise.
He is a truly unfortunate creature, everybody laughs at him--we
all call him 'Father Goriot.' "
"Why, child that you are," cried the Vicomtesse, "Mme. de Restaud
was a Mlle. Goriot!"
"The daughter of a vermicelli manufacturer," the Duchess added;
Father Goriot |
