| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell: He examined me very closely and said:
"This is a case of overwork more than disease, and if you could give him
a run off for six months he would be able to work again;
but now there is not an ounce of strength left in him."
"Then he must just go to the dogs," said Skinner. "I have no meadows
to nurse sick horses in -- he might get well or he might not;
that sort of thing don't suit my business; my plan is to work 'em
as long as they'll go, and then sell 'em for what they'll fetch,
at the knacker's or elsewhere."
"If he was broken-winded," said the farrier, "you had better have him
killed out of hand, but he is not; there is a sale of horses coming off
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Reminiscences of Tolstoy by Leo Tolstoy: to say that my father was sincerely annoyed, when he heard applied
to himself the epithet "great writer of the land of Russia," which
was taken from this letter.
He always hated clichés, and he regarded this
one as quite absurd.
"Why not 'writer of the land'? I never heard before that a
man could be the writer of a land. People get attached to some
nonsensical expression, and go on repeating it in season and out of
season."
I have given extracts above from Turgénieff's letters,
which show the invariable consistency with which he lauded my
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: quae facilia ex difficillimis animi magnitudo redegerat.
Hoc proelio facto et prope ad internecionem gente ac nomine Nerviorum
redacto, maiores natu, quos una cum pueris mulieribusque in aestuaria ac
paludes coniectos dixeramus, hac pugna nuntiata, cum victoribus nihil
impeditum, victis nihil tutum arbitrarentur, omnium qui supererant
consensu legatos ad Caesarem miserunt seque ei dediderunt; et in
commemoranda civitatis calamitate ex DC ad tres senatores, ex hominum
milibus LX vix ad D, qui arma ferre possent, sese redactos esse dixerunt.
Quos Caesar, ut in miseros ac supplices usus misericordia videretur,
diligentissime conservavit suisque finibus atque oppidis uti iussit et
finitimis imperavit ut ab iniuria et maleficio se suosque prohiberent.
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