| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Symposium by Xenophon: mysteries of this divinity.[24]
[23] Cf. Plat. "Rep." iii. 403 A: "Whereas true love is a love of
beauty and order, temperate and harmonious."
[24] Cf. "Econ." xxi. 12.
So they supped in silence, the whole company, as if an injunction had
been laid upon them by some superior power. But presently there came a
knocking on the door! Philippus the jester bade the doorkeeper[25]
announce him, with apologies for seeking a night's lodging:[26] he had
come, he said, provided with all necessaries for dining, at a friend's
expense: his attendant was much galled with carrying, nothing but an
empty bread-basket.[27] To this announcement Callias, appealing to his
The Symposium |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Nana, Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, Death of Olivier Becaille by Emile Zola: merry with dimples and so worn with desire, which the closed eye
rendered more seductive. When she shut her right eye and passed the
brush along it he understood that he belonged to her.
"They are stamping their feet, madame," the callboy once more cried.
"They'll end by smashing the seats. May I give the knocks?"
"Oh, bother!" said Nana impatiently. "Knock away; I don't care! If
I'm not ready, well, they'll have to wait for me!"
She grew calm again and, turning to the gentlemen, added with a
smile:
"It's true: we've only got a minute left for our talk."
Her face and arms were now finished, and with her fingers she put
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Allan Quatermain by H. Rider Haggard: countries of Europe, and sing all sorts of nonsensical songs
to them. The young men may or may not be serious; but no offence
is meant and none is taken, even by ladies of the highest rank,
who accept the whole thing as an English girl would a
gracefully-turned compliment.
Availing himself of this custom, Good bethought him that would
serenade Sorais, whose private apartments, together with those
of her maidens, were exactly opposite our own, on the further
side of a narrow courtyard which divided one section of the great
palace from another. Accordingly, having armed himself with
a native zither, on which, being an adept with the light guitar,
Allan Quatermain |
