| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia by Samuel Johnson: If it could have amused me to hear the complaints of each against
the rest, I might have been often detained by long stories; but the
motives of their animosity were so small that I could not listen
without interrupting the tale."
"How," said Rasselas, "can the Arab, whom you represented as a man
of more than common accomplishments, take any pleasure in his
seraglio, when it is filled only with women like these? Are they
exquisitely beautiful?"
"They do not," said Pekuah, "want that unaffecting and ignoble
beauty which may subsist without sprightliness or sublimity,
without energy of thought or dignity of virtue. But to a man like
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Anabasis by Xenophon: 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
The Cyropaedia 8
The Memorabilia 4
The Symposium 1
The Economist 1
Anabasis |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: it. The tall man in black knocked upon the gate, and some one
opened it from within. The man in black entered, and Beppo
followed at his heels, wondering where he was going.
He was in a garden. There were fruit trees and flowering shrubs
and long marble walks, and away in the distance a great grand
palace of white marble that shone red as fire in the light of the
setting sun, but there was not a soul to be seen anywhere.
The tall man in black led the way up the long marble walk, past
the fountains and fruit trees and beds of roses, until he had
come to the palace.
Beppo wondered whether he were dreaming.
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