| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Symposium by Xenophon: [57] See Plat. "Phaedr." 255 C; Cic. "Tusc." i. 26, "nec Homerum audio
. . . divina mallem ad nos," a protest against anthropomorphism in
religion.
[58] Not in "our" version of Homer, but cf. "Il." xx. 405, {ganutai de
te tois 'Enosikhthon}; "Il." xiii. 493, {ganutai d' ara te phrena
poimen}.
And again, in another passage he says:
Knowing deep devices ({medea}) in his mind,[59]
which is as much as to say, "knowing wise counsels in his mind."
Ganymede, therefore, bears a name compounded of the two words, "joy"
and "counsel," and is honoured among the gods, not as one "whose
The Symposium |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: Williams had set the broken bone.
I dropped asleep then, waking in the late twilight to a realization
that I was at home again, without the papers that meant conviction
for Andy Bronson, with a charge of murder hanging over my head, and
with something more than an impression of the girl my best friend
was in love with, a girl moreover who was almost as great an enigma
as the crime itself.
"And I'm no hand at guessing riddles," I groaned half aloud. Mrs.
Klopton came over promptly and put a cold cloth on my forehead.
"Euphemia," she said to some one outside the door, "telephone the
doctor that he is still rambling, but that he has switched from
The Man in Lower Ten |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Virginibus Puerisque by Robert Louis Stevenson: two of qualification; for this is one of the points on which a
slightly greater age teaches us a slightly different wisdom:
A youth delights in generalities, and keeps loose from
particular obligations; he jogs on the footpath way, himself
pursuing butterflies, but courteously lending his applause to
the advance of the human species and the coming of the kingdom
of justice and love. As he grows older, he begins to think
more narrowly of man's action in the general, and perhaps more
arrogantly of his own in the particular. He has not that same
unspeakable trust in what he would have done had he been
spared, seeing finally that that would have been little; but
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