| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from On Horsemanship by Xenophon: 22, of a dog.
[20] {apokroton}, al. {epikroton}, "beaten, hard-trodden ground."
But in collecting him, the rider should as little as possible sway the
horse obliquely with the bit, and as little as possible incline his
own body; or, he may rest assured, a trifle will suffice to stretch
him and his horse full length upon the ground. The moment the horse
has his eyes fixed on the straight course after making a turn, is the
time to urge him to full speed. In battle, obviously, these turns and
wheelings are with a view to charging or retiring; consequently, to
practise quickening the pace after wheeling is desirable. When the
horse seems to have had enough of the manege, it would be good to give
On Horsemanship |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft: visible in every line of the mates frightened description.
Without
knowing what futurism is like, Johansen achieved something very
close to it when he spoke of the city; for instead of describing
any definite structure or building, he dwells only on broad impressions
of vast angles and stone surfaces - surfaces too great to belong
to anything right or proper for this earth, and impious with horrible
images and hieroglyphs. I mention his talk about angles because
it suggests something Wilcox had told me of his awful dreams.
He said that the geometry of the dream-place he saw was abnormal,
non-Euclidean, and loathsomely redolent of spheres and dimensions
Call of Cthulhu |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Bureaucracy by Honore de Balzac: These secret schemes brought some changes into the household. Madame
Rabourdin began to walk with a firm step in the path of DEBT. She set
up a manservant, and put him in livery of brown cloth with red pipins,
she renewed parts of her furniture, hung new papers on the walls,
adorned her salon with plants and flowers, always fresh, and crowded
it with knick-knacks that were then in vogue; then she, who had always
shown scruples as to her personal expenses, did not hesitate to put
her dress in keeping with the rank to which she aspired, the profits
of which were discounted in several of the shops where she equipped
herself for war. To make her "Wednesdays" fashionable she gave a
dinner on Fridays, the guests being expected to pay their return visit
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