| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Extracts From Adam's Diary by Mark Twain: the other animals make when they are in distress. I wish it would
not talk; it is always talking. That sounds like a cheap fling
at the poor creature, a slur; but I do not mean it so. I have never
heard the human voice before, and any new and strange sound
intruding itself here upon the solemn hush of these dreaming
solitudes offends my ear and seems a false note. And this new
sound is so close to me; it is right at my shoulder, right at my
ear, first on one side and then on the other, and I am used only
to sounds that are more or less distant from me.
Friday
The naming goes recklessly on, in spite of anything I can do. I
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: same method of the chase in dealing with them.
[13] {piesas}, "noosling, nestling, buried."
[14] "The blood runs cold."
[15] Or, "but it will give them a good chase; the dogs will have their
work cut out."
Young fawns may be captured in the way described. Those that are
already big will give more trouble, since they graze with their
mothers and the other deer, and when pursued retire in the middle of
the herd or occasionally in front, but very seldom in the rear. The
deer, moreover, in order to protect their young will do battle with
the hounds and trample them under foot; so that capture is not easy,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: pollicitum se in cohortis praetoriae loco X. legionem habiturum ad equum
rescribere.
Planities erat magna et in ea tumulus terrenus satis grandis. Hic
locus aequum fere spatium a castris Ariovisti et Caesaris aberat. Eo, ut
erat dictum, ad conloquium venerunt. Legionem Caesar, quam equis
devexerat, passibus CC ab eo tumulo constituit. Item equites Ariovisti
pari intervallo constiterunt. Ariovistus ex equis ut conloquerentur et
praeter se denos ad conloquium adducerent postulavit. Ubi eo ventum est,
Caesar initio orationis sua senatusque in eum beneficia commemoravit, quod
rex appellatus esset a senatu, quod amicus, quod munera amplissime missa;
quam rem et paucis contigisse et pro magnis hominum officiis consuesse
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