| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Don Quixote by Miquel de Cervantes: captives, as we should set them free on the first opportunity.
The same was said to Zoraida's father, who replied, "Anything
else, Christian, I might hope for or think likely from your generosity
and good behaviour, but do not think me so simple as to imagine you
will give me my liberty; for you would have never exposed yourselves
to the danger of depriving me of it only to restore it to me so
generously, especially as you know who I am and the sum you may expect
to receive on restoring it; and if you will only name that, I here
offer you all you require for myself and for my unhappy daughter
there; or else for her alone, for she is the greatest and most
precious part of my soul."
Don Quixote |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Life of the Spider by J. Henri Fabre: presents no difficulty. But there remains the question of energy-
producing food, which is indispensable, for the little Lycosa
moves, when necessary, and very actively at that. To what shall we
attribute the heat expended upon action, when the animal takes
absolutely no nourishment?
An idea suggests itself. We say to ourselves that, without being
life, a machine is something more than matter, for man has added a
little of his mind to it. Now the iron beast, consuming its ration
of coal, is really browsing the ancient foliage of arborescent
ferns in which solar energy has accumulated.
Beasts of flesh and blood act no otherwise. Whether they mutually
The Life of the Spider |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain: random --"
I saw that I had been asleep and missed a chapter,
but I didn't say anything. I judged that the Irish
knight was in trouble with the visitors by this time, and
this turned out to be the case.
"-- that Sir Uwaine smote Sir Marhaus that his
spear brast in pieces on the shield, and Sir Marhaus
smote him so sore that horse and man he bare to the
earth, and hurt Sir Uwaine on the left side --
"The truth is, Alisande, these archaics are a little
TOO simple; the vocabulary is too limited, and so, by
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
