| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Contrast by Royall Tyler: expression into a double meaning, which the poor au-
thor never dreamt of, and then we have recourse to
our fans, and then we blush, and then the gentlemen
jog one another, peep under the fan, and make the
prettiest remarks; and then we giggle and they simper,
and they giggle and we simper, and then the curtain
drops, and then for nuts and oranges, and then we
bow, and it's pray, Ma'am, take it, and pray, Sir, keep
it, and oh! not for the world, Sir; and then the curtain
rises again, and then we blush and giggle and simper
and bow all over again. Oh! the sentimental charms
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Symposium by Xenophon: flame, while side by side with it the bright bronze vessel gives no
light, but shows within itself those other objects mirrored.[1] Or,
how is it that oil, being moist and liquid, keeps that flame ablaze,
but water, just because it is liquid, quenches fire. But no more do
these same marvels tend to promote the object of the wine-cup.[2]
[1] Cf. "Mem." IV. vii. 7. Socrates' criticism of Anaxagoras' theory
with regard to the sun.
[2] Lit. "work to the same end as wine."
But now, supposing your young people yonder were to tread a measure to
the flute, some pantomime in dance, like those which the Graces and
the Hours with the Nymphs are made to tread in pictures,[3] I think
The Symposium |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: across the face of his kinsman. A moment longer he looked down,
then passed his hands across his eyes and seemed to brush away
the memories that thronged him. He stepped forward to the fire
and warmed his hands.
"We'll go on, Mac, to the rendezvous he had appointed with his
outfit. We ought to reach there by noon, and the boys can send a
wagon back to get the bodies."
CHAPTER 23. JOURNEYS END IN LOVERS' MEETING
It had been six days since the two Ned Bannisters had ridden away
together into the mountains, and every waking hour since that
time had been for Helen one of harassing anxiety. No word had yet
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