| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: Belgas, qui se populo Romano dedidissent patriamque virtutem proiecissent;
confirmare sese neque legatos missuros neque ullam condicionem pacis
accepturos.
Cum per eorum fines triduum iter fecisset, inveniebat ex captivis
Sabim flumen a castris suis non amplius milibus passuum X abesse; trans id
flumen omnes Nervios consedisse adventumque ibi Romanorum expectare una
cum Atrebatibus et Viromanduis, finitimis suis (nam his utrisque
persuaserant uti eandem belli fortunam experirentur); expectari etiam ab
iis Atuatucorum copias atque esse in itinere; mulieres quique per aetatem
ad pugnam inutiles viderentur in eum locum coniecisse quo propter paludes
exercitui aditus non esset.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Heart of the West by O. Henry: Being a hunter, I was concerned in the evils that may befall one in
the pursuit of game.
"That ear," says Hicks, "is the relic of true friendship."
"An accident?" I persisted.
"No friendship is an accident," said Telemachus; and I was silent.
"The only perfect case of true friendship I ever knew," went on my
host, "was a cordial intent between a Connecticut man and a monkey.
The monkey climbed palms in Barranquilla and threw down cocoanuts to
the man. The man sawed them in two and made dippers, which he sold for
two /reales/ each and bought rum. The monkey drank the milk of the
nuts. Through each being satisfied with his own share of the graft,
Heart of the West |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Voice of the City by O. Henry: those lover's doubts, those heart-burnings and
tremors of which be had written so unconvincingly
were his. Talk about Shylock's pound of flesh!
Twenty-five pounds Cupid got from Pettit. Which
is the usurer?
One night Pettit came to my room exalted. Pale
and haggard but exalted. She had given him a
jonquil.
"Old Hoss," said he, with a new smile flickering
around his mouth, "I believe I could write that story
to-night -- the one, you know, that is to win out.
The Voice of the City |
