| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay: "You mentioned that name before. Who is he?"
"Oh! My lover, or, as you would say, my husband."
"This doesn't improve matters," said Maskull.
"It leaves them exactly where they were. We merely have to remove
him."
"We are certainly misunderstanding each other," said Maskull, quite
startled. "Do you by any chance imagine that I am making a compact
with you?"
"You will do nothing against your will. But you have promised to
come home with me."
"Tell me, how do you remove husbands in Ifdawn?"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis: They was a crick about a hundred yards from our
house, in the woods, and I went over there and laid
down and watched it run by. I laid awful still,
thinking I wisht I was away from that town. Purty
soon a squirrel comes down and sets on a log and
watches me. I throwed an acorn at him, and he
scooted up a tree quicker'n scatt. And then I
wisht I hadn't scared him away, fur it looked like
he knowed I was in trouble. Purty soon I takes a
swim, and comes out and lays there some more,
spitting into the water and thinking what shall
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Anabasis by Xenophon: 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
This was typed from Dakyns' series, "The Works of Xenophon," a
four-volume set. The complete list of Xenophon's works (though
there is doubt about some of these) is:
Work Number of books
The Anabasis 7
Anabasis |
