| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from American Notes by Rudyard Kipling: our own blood, looking at the matter from a Pindarris point of
view. Dog cannot eat dog.
These sinful reflections were prompted by the sight of the
beautifully unprotected condition of Buffalo--a city that could
be made to pay up five million dollars without feeling it. There
are her companies of infantry in a sort of port there. A gun-boat
brought over in pieces from Niagara could get the money and get
away before she could be caught, while an unarmored gun-boat
guarding Toronto could ravage the towns on the lakes. When one
hears so much of the nation that can whip the earth, it is, to
say the least of it, surprising to find her so temptingly
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: Others simply play at hunting; or from pure jealousy, keep questing
about beside the line, continually rushing along and tumbling over one
another.[31]
[26] Or, {misotheron}, "out of antipathy to the quarry." For
{philanthropon} cf. Pollux, ib. 64; Hermog. ap. L. Dind.
[27] Or, "unable apparently to distinguish false from true." See
Sturz, s.v. {poieisthai}. Cf. Plut. "de Exil." 6. Al. "Gaily
substituting false for true."
[28] "In the heat of the chase."
[29] "Rush to attack it."
[30] The fact is, there are as many different modes of following up
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Salome by Oscar Wilde: comme des fleurs bleues. La mer erre dedans, et la lune ne vient
jamais troubler le bleu de ses flots. J'ai des chrysolithes et des
beryls, j'ai des chrysoprases et des rubis, j'ai des sardonyx et des
hyacinthes, et des calcedoines et je vous les donnerai tous, mais
tous, et j'ajouterai d'autres choses. Le roi des Indes vient
justement de m'envoyer quatre eventails faits de plumes de
perroquets, et le roi de Numidie une robe faite de plumes
d'autruche. J'ai un cristal qu'il n'est pas permis aux femmes de
voir et que meme les jeunes hommes ne doivent regarder qu'apres
avoir ete flagelles de verges. Dans un coffret de nacre j'ai trois
turquoises merveilleuses. Quand on les porte sur le front on peut
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