| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from In a German Pension by Katherine Mansfield: children were all soundly sleeping. She stripped the mattress off the
baby's bed to see if he was still dry, then began unfastening her blouse
and skirt.
"Always the same," she said--"all over the world the same; but, God in
heaven--but STUPID.
Then even the memory of the wedding faded quite. She lay down on the bed
and put her arm across her face like a child who expected to be hurt as
Herr Brechenmacher lurched in.
6. THE MODERN SOUL.
"Good-evening," said the Herr Professor, squeezing my hand; "wonderful
weather! I have just returned from a party in the wood. I have been
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay: can come of it."
"Do not fear change and destruction; but laughter and joy."
Maskull meditated.
"Tell me, Catice. If I had elected to follow Spadevil, would you
really have accepted his faith?"
"He was a great-souled man," replied Catice. "I see that the pride
of our men is only another sprouting - out of pleasure. Tomorrow I
too shall leave Sant, to reflect on all this."
Maskull shuddered. "Then these two deaths were not a necessity, but
a crime!"
"His part was played and henceforward the woman would have dragged
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Apology by Plato: despises such pursuits, but the fact is that he is ignorant of them, and
never says a word about them. Nor is he paid for giving instruction--that
is another mistaken notion:--he has nothing to teach. But he commends
Evenus for teaching virtue at such a 'moderate' rate as five minae.
Something of the 'accustomed irony,' which may perhaps be expected to sleep
in the ear of the multitude, is lurking here.
He then goes on to explain the reason why he is in such an evil name. That
had arisen out of a peculiar mission which he had taken upon himself. The
enthusiastic Chaerephon (probably in anticipation of the answer which he
received) had gone to Delphi and asked the oracle if there was any man
wiser than Socrates; and the answer was, that there was no man wiser. What
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