| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Hiero by Xenophon: it is likely, there will none be found more resolute to take the
lion's share of toil or peril, or do outpost duty, keeping watch and
ward while others sleep, brave mercenaries.
[7] The author is perhaps thinking of some personal experiences. He
works out his theory of a wage-earning militia for the protection
of the state in the "Cyropaedia." See esp. VII. v. 69 foll.
And what will be the effect on the neighbour states conterminous with
yours?[8] Will not this standing army lead them to desire peace beyond
all other things? In fact, a compact force like this, so organised,
will prove most potent to preserve the interests of their friends and
to damage those of their opponents.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: that debris-cluttered corridor. Now and then I could make out
carvings on the ages-tained walls - some familiar, others seemingly
added since the period of my dreams. Since this was a subterrene
house - connecting highway, there were no archways save when the
route led through the lower levels of various buildings.
At
some of these intersections I turned aside long enough to look
down well-remembered corridors and into well-remembered rooms.
Twice only did I find any radical changes from what I had dreamed
of - and in one of these cases I could trace the sealed-up outlines
of the archway I remembered.
Shadow out of Time |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe: to be secret, she stopped a little, as if waiting to see what
impression it made on me, and what I would say.
I was to sensible too the want I was in of such a woman, not
to accept her offer; I told her my case was partly as she
guessed, and partly not, for I was really married, and had a
husband, though he was in such fine circumstances and so
remote at that time, as that he could not appear publicly.
She took me short, and told me that was none of her business;
all the ladies that came under her care were married women
to her. 'Every woman,' she says, 'that is with child has a father
for it,' and whether that father was a husband or no husband,
Moll Flanders |
