| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from McTeague by Frank Norris: heated by the whiskey he had drank, flamed up afresh. What
a humiliating position for Trina to place him in, not to
leave him the price of a drink with a friend, she who had
five thousand dollars!
"Sha! That's all right, Doc," returned Heise, nibbling on a
grain of coffee. "Want another? Hey? This my treat. Two
more of the same, Joe."
McTeague hesitated. It was lamentably true that whiskey did
not agree with him; he knew it well enough. However, by
this time he felt very comfortably warm at the pit of his
stomach. The blood was beginning to circulate in his
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Hiero by Xenophon: [2] Cf. "Cyrop." II. iii. 8; VIII. i. 29.
[3] Cf. "Mem." II. iii. 16; "Cyrop." VII. v. 20.
[4] {gerairosi}, poetic. Cf. "Cyrop." VIII. i. 39; "Hell." I. vii. 33;
"Econ." iv. 8; "Herod." v. 67; Pind. "O." iii. 3, v. 11; "N." v.
15; "Od." xiv. 437, 441; "Il." vii. 321; Plat. "Rep." 468 D,
quoting "Il." vii. 321.
[5] Reading {tois turannois}, or if {tous turannous}, after Cobet,
"That is how they treat crowned heads."
[6] Cf. Tennyson, "Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington":
With honour, honour, honour to him,
Eternal honour to his name.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Herland by Charlotte Gilman: Mr. Yellow Press in on this. Save us! What headlines!"
"Not much!" said Terry grimly. "This is our party. We're
going to find that place alone."
"What are you going to do with it when you do find it--if
you do?" Jeff asked mildly.
Jeff was a tender soul. I think he thought that country--if
there was one--was just blossoming with roses and babies and
canaries and tidies, and all that sort of thing.
And Terry, in his secret heart, had visions of a sort of
sublimated summer resort--just Girls and Girls and Girls--and
that he was going to be--well, Terry was popular among women even
Herland |
