| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Anabasis by Xenophon: and was exiled from Athens. Sparta gave him land
and property in Scillus, where he lived for many
years before having to move once more, to settle
in Corinth. He died in 354 B.C.
The Anabasis is his story of the march to Persia
to aid Cyrus, who enlisted Greek help to try and
take the throne from Artaxerxes, and the ensuing
return of the Greeks, in which Xenophon played a
leading role. This occurred between 401 B.C. and
March 399 B.C.
PREPARER'S NOTE
Anabasis |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis: first thing--it was Watty and the snake-charmer
woman. Only she wasn't charming them now.
Her and Watty had a Parisian Models' show. I
ast Watty where Dolly was. He says he don't
know, that Dolly has quit him. By which I guess
he means he has quit her. I ast where Reginald is,
and the Human Ostrich. But from the way they
answered my questions I seen I wasn't welcome
none around there. I suppose that Mrs. Ostrich
and Watty had met up agin somewheres, and had
jest natcherally run off with each other and left
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from My Aunt Margaret's Mirror by Walter Scott: dissatisfaction with her husband's journey that was sure to come
to his ears, and equally certain to displease him. But there was
no help for this domestic dissension, which ended only with the
day of separation.
I am sorry I cannot tell, with precision, the year in which Sir
Philip Forester went over to Flanders; but it was one of those in
which the campaign opened with extraordinary fury, and many
bloody, though indecisive, skirmishes were fought between the
French on the one side and the Allies on the other. In all our
modern improvements, there are none, perhaps, greater than in the
accuracy and speed with which intelligence is transmitted from
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