| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lysis by Plato: I dare say that you have heard those words.
Yes, he said; I have.
And have you not also met with the treatises of philosophers who say that
like must love like? they are the people who argue and write about nature
and the universe.
Very true, he replied.
And are they right in saying this?
They may be.
Perhaps, I said, about half, or possibly, altogether, right, if their
meaning were rightly apprehended by us. For the more a bad man has to do
with a bad man, and the more nearly he is brought into contact with him,
Lysis |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Heart of the West by O. Henry: that matters not much. In travelling merely from Paradise to Sunrise
City one needs little or no name. Still, one who would seek to divide
honours with Judge Madison L. Menefee deserves a cognomenal peg upon
which Fame may hang a wreath. Thus spake, loudly and buoyantly, the
aerial miller:
"Guess you'll have to climb out of the ark, Mrs. McFarland. This
wigwam isn't exactly the Palmer House, but it turns snow, and they
won't search your grip for souvenir spoons when you leave. /We've/ got
a fire going; and /we'll/ fix you up with dry Tilbys and keep the mice
away, anyhow, all right, all right."
One of the two passengers who were struggling in a melee of horses,
Heart of the West |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Hamlet by William Shakespeare: the Scripture? the Scripture sayes Adam dig'd;
could hee digge without Armes? Ile put another question
to thee; if thou answerest me not to the purpose, confesse
thy selfe-
Other. Go too
Clo. What is he that builds stronger then either the
Mason, the Shipwright, or the Carpenter?
Other. The Gallowes maker; for that Frame outliues a
thousand Tenants
Clo. I like thy wit well in good faith, the Gallowes
does well; but how does it well? it does well to those
Hamlet |
