| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Betty Zane by Zane Grey: Far down the road, perhaps five hundred yards from the Fort, a point of light
had appeared. At first it was still, and then it took an odd jerky motion, to
this side and to that, up and down like a jack-o-lantern.
"What the hell?" muttered Col. Zane, sorely puzzled. "Jack, by all that's
strange it's getting bigger."
Sure enough the spark of fire, or whatever it was, grew larger and larger.
Col. Zane thought it might be a light carried by a man on horseback. But if
this were true where was the clatter of the horse's hoofs? On that rocky blur
no horse could run noiselessly. It could not be a horse. Fascinated and
troubled by this new mystery which seemed to presage evil to them the watchers
waited with that patience known only to those accustomed to danger. They knew
Betty Zane |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Maitre Cornelius by Honore de Balzac: way.
"Sire, I would willingly pay a thousand gold crowns if I could have a
moment's talk with you; I have found the thief who stole the rubies
and all the jewels of the Duke of--"
"Let us hear about that," said Louis XI., going out into the courtyard
of Plessis, followed by his silversmith, Coyctier his physician,
Olivier de Daim, and the captain of his Scottish guard. "Tell me about
it. Another man to hang for you! Hola, Tristan!"
The grand provost, who was walking up and down the courtyard, came
with slow steps, like a dog who exhibits his fidelity. The group
paused under a tree. The king sat down on a bench and the courtiers
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Republic by Plato: participate in the idea, neither putting the objects in the place of the
idea nor the idea in the place of the objects--is he a dreamer, or is he
awake?
He is wide awake.
And may we not say that the mind of the one who knows has knowledge, and
that the mind of the other, who opines only, has opinion?
Certainly.
But suppose that the latter should quarrel with us and dispute our
statement, can we administer any soothing cordial or advice to him, without
revealing to him that there is sad disorder in his wits?
We must certainly offer him some good advice, he replied.
The Republic |
