| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Weir of Hermiston by Robert Louis Stevenson: twice in the month) with a clap on the shoulder.
I have said her heart leaped - it is the accepted phrase. But rather,
when she was alone in any chamber of the house, and heard his foot
passing on the corridors, something in her bosom rose slowly until her
breath was suspended, and as slowly fell again with a deep sigh, when
the steps had passed and she was disappointed of her eyes' desire. This
perpetual hunger and thirst of his presence kept her all day on the
alert. When he went forth at morning, she would stand and follow him
with admiring looks. As it grew late and drew to the time of his return,
she would steal forth to a corner of the policy wall and be seen standing
there sometimes by the hour together, gazing with shaded eyes, waiting the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Memorabilia by Xenophon: send them to be taught at their expense. Thus they watch over their
children, doing all in their power to enable them to grow up to be as
good as possible.
[1] Lit. "the joys of Aphrodite."
[2] "For the procreation of children." See below, IV. iv. 22; "Pol.
Lac." i.
[3] Lit. "to leave nought lacking."
So be it (the youth answered); but even if she have done all that, and
twenty times as much, no soul on earth could endure my mother's cross-
grained temper.
Then Socrates: Which, think you, would be harder to bear--a wild
The Memorabilia |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Oakdale Affair by Edgar Rice Burroughs: The Oskaloosa Kid cast a wide eyed glance of terror
at Bridge. His lips moved in an attempt to speak; but
fear rendered him inarticulate. Slowly, ponderously the
THING ascended the dark stairs from the gloom ridden
cellar of the deserted ruin. Even Bridge paled a trifle.
The man upon the floor appeared to have met an un-
natural death--the frightful expression frozen upon the
dead face might even indicate something verging upon
the supernatural. The sound of the THING climbing
out of the cellar was indeed uncanny--so uncanny that
Bridge discovered himself looking about for some means
The Oakdale Affair |
