| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Young Forester by Zane Grey: like a thunder-cloud, and he was plainly worried and harassed. Once Bud
deliberately asked what be intended to do with me, and Buell snarled a
reply which no one understood. His gloom extended to the others, except
Herky, who whistled and sang as he busied himself about the campfire.
Greaser appeared to be particularly cast down.
"Buell, what are you going to do with me?" I demanded. But he made no
answer.
"Well, anyway," I went on, "somebody cut these ropes. I'm mighty sore and
uncomfortable."
Herky-Jerky did not wait for permission; he untied me, and helped me to my
feet. I was rather unsteady on my legs at first, and my injured arm felt
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith: propriety.
HARDCASTLE. And yet, Kate, I sometimes give you some cause,
particularly when I recommended my modest gentleman to you as a lover
to-day.
MISS HARDCASTLE. You taught me to expect something extraordinary, and
I find the original exceeds the description.
HARDCASTLE. I was never so surprised in my life! He has quite
confounded all my faculties!
MISS HARDCASTLE. I never saw anything like it: and a man of the world
too!
HARDCASTLE. Ay, he learned it all abroad--what a fool was I, to think
She Stoops to Conquer |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Ion by Plato: and you will see how readily and truly I shall answer you. For there are
many such passages, particularly in the Odyssee; as, for example, the
passage in which Theoclymenus the prophet of the house of Melampus says to
the suitors:--
'Wretched men! what is happening to you? Your heads and your faces and
your limbs underneath are shrouded in night; and the voice of lamentation
bursts forth, and your cheeks are wet with tears. And the vestibule is
full, and the court is full, of ghosts descending into the darkness of
Erebus, and the sun has perished out of heaven, and an evil mist is spread
abroad (Od.).'
And there are many such passages in the Iliad also; as for example in the
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