| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: from the drawing-room.
"So much the better. I shall take it also," a man's voice was
heard to say from the other side, followed by the playful
laughter of a woman, who was apparently trying to prevent the man
from taking something away from her.
"No, no; not on any account," the woman's voice said.
"All right, then. I shall do all this," Maslennikoff repeated,
and put out the cigarette he held in his white, turquoise-ringed
hand. "And now let us join the ladies."
"Wait a moment," Nekhludoff said, stopping at the door of the
drawing-room. "I was told that some men had received corporal
Resurrection |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Apology by Xenophon: those whom he will of what is about to be. That is a thing which all
the world believes and asserts even as I do. Only, when they describe
these premonitions under the name of birds and utterances, tokens[24]
and soothsayers, I speak of a divinity, and in using that designation
I claim to speak at once more exactly and more reverentially than they
do who ascribe the power of the gods to birds. And that I am not lying
against the Godhead I have this as a proof: although I have reported
to numbers of friends the counsels of heaven, I have never at any time
been shown to be a deceiver or deceived."
[20] Cf. "Mem." I. i. 2.
[21] Cf. Plat. "Apol." 19.
The Apology |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from McTeague by Frank Norris: alone.
"I wonder what's keeping Mac," she exclaimed as the clock
from the power-house on Sutter Street struck half-past
seven. "I KNOW he's drinking somewhere," she cried,
apprehensively. "He had the money from his sign with him."
At eight o'clock she threw a shawl over her head and went
over to the harness shop. If anybody would know where
McTeague was it would be Heise. But the harness-maker had
seen nothing of him since the day before.
"He was in here yesterday afternoon, and we had a drink or
two at Frenna's. Maybe he's been in there to-day."
McTeague |
