| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Hellenica by Xenophon: ourselves are in their secret, all the rest of them--helots,
enfranchised, inferiors, provincials, one and all.[6] Note their
demeanour when Spartans chance to be the topic of their talk. Not one
of them can conceal the delight it would give him if he might eat up
every Spartan raw.'"[7] Then, as the inquiry went on, the question
came: "And where did they propose to find arms?" The answer followed:
"He explained that those of us, of course, who are enrolled in
regiments have arms of our own already, and as for the mass--he led
the way to the war foundry, and showed me scores and scores of knives,
of swords, of spits, hatchets, and axes, and reaping-hooks. 'Anything
or everything,' he told me, 'which men use to delve in earth, cut
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Happy Prince and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde: Downstairs ran the Giant in great joy, and out into the garden. He
hastened across the grass, and came near to the child. And when he
came quite close his face grew red with anger, and he said, "Who
hath dared to wound thee?" For on the palms of the child's hands
were the prints of two nails, and the prints of two nails were on
the little feet.
"Who hath dared to wound thee?" cried the Giant; "tell me, that I
may take my big sword and slay him."
"Nay!" answered the child; "but these are the wounds of Love."
"Who art thou?" said the Giant, and a strange awe fell on him, and
he knelt before the little child.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Glasses by Henry James: of whom, with the adjacent objects, as I had left them, had been
intercepted by a luxuriant foreground.
Before I had gained her house I met her, as I supposed, coming
toward me across the down, greeting me from afar with the familiar
twinkle of her great vitreous badge; and as it was late in the
autumn and the esplanade a blank I was free to acknowledge this
signal by cutting a caper on the grass. My enthusiasm dropped
indeed the next moment, for I had seen in a few more seconds that
the person thus assaulted had by no means the figure of my military
friend. I felt a shock much greater than any I should have thought
possible when on this person's drawing near I knew her for poor
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