| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Ballads by Robert Louis Stevenson: TO ORI A ORI
ORI, my brother in the island mode,
In every tongue and meaning much my friend,
This story of your country and your clan,
In your loved house, your too much honoured guest,
I made in English. Take it, being done;
And let me sign it with the name you gave.
TERIITERA.
I. THE SLAYING OF TAMATEA
IT fell in the days of old, as the men of Taiarapu tell,
A youth went forth to the fishing, and fortune favoured him well.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Symposium by Plato: your very best attention:
'He who has been instructed thus far in the things of love, and who has
learned to see the beautiful in due order and succession, when he comes
toward the end will suddenly perceive a nature of wondrous beauty (and
this, Socrates, is the final cause of all our former toils)--a nature which
in the first place is everlasting, not growing and decaying, or waxing and
waning; secondly, not fair in one point of view and foul in another, or at
one time or in one relation or at one place fair, at another time or in
another relation or at another place foul, as if fair to some and foul to
others, or in the likeness of a face or hands or any other part of the
bodily frame, or in any form of speech or knowledge, or existing in any
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Lesser Bourgeoisie by Honore de Balzac: In short, during the whole day, la Peyrade had not shown himself the
able and infallible man that we have hitherto seen him. Once before,
when he carried the fifteen thousand francs entrusted to him by
Thuillier, he had been led by Cerizet into an insurrectionary
proceeding which necessitated the affair of Sauvaignou. Perhaps, on
the whole, it is more difficult to be strong under good than under
evil fortune. The Farnese Hercules, calm and in still repose,
expresses more energetically the plenitude of muscular power than a
violent and agitated Hercules represented in the over-excited energy
of his labors.
PART II
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