| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Anabasis by Xenophon: 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
The Hellenica 7
Anabasis |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela: to be piled upon one another, or wound picturesquely
about fantastic corners, or set to scale the hills nearby.
Above the graceful cluster of houses, rose the lithe
columns of a warehouse and the towers and cupola of the
church.
"How beautiful the revolution! Even in its most bar-
barous aspect it is beautiful," Solis said with deep feel-
ing. Then a vague melancholy seized him, and speaking
low:
"A pity what remains to do won't be as beautiful! We
must wait a while, until there are no men left to fight
The Underdogs |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: stones at us yesterday when we mocked him down in the paddock. He
and his wife and those others dwell in the vaults beneath, like
rabbits in any warren. No one else hath lived there since Earl
Robert's day, which belike was an hundred years agone. The story
goeth that Earl Robert's brother--or step- brother--was murdered
there, and some men say by the Earl himself. Sin that day it hath
been tight shut."
Myles stared at the tower for a while in silence. "It is a
strange-seeming place from without," said he, at last, "and
mayhap it may be even more strange inside. Hast ever been within,
Francis?"
Men of Iron |
