| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Ion by Plato: of knowledge and another of another, they are different?
ION: Yes.
SOCRATES: Yes, surely; for if the subject of knowledge were the same,
there would be no meaning in saying that the arts were different,--if they
both gave the same knowledge. For example, I know that here are five
fingers, and you know the same. And if I were to ask whether I and you
became acquainted with this fact by the help of the same art of arithmetic,
you would acknowledge that we did?
ION: Yes.
SOCRATES: Tell me, then, what I was intending to ask you,--whether this
holds universally? Must the same art have the same subject of knowledge,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Life of the Spider by J. Henri Fabre: abdomen.
Then, once again, with the same suddenness, the material changes.
The white silk reappears, wrought into thread. This is the moment
to weave the outer wrapper. Because of the thickness of the stuff
and the density of its texture, this operation is the longest of
the series.
First, a few threads are flung out, hither and thither, to keep the
layer of wadding in position. The Epeira takes special pains with
the edge of the neck, where she fashions an indented border, the
angles of which, prolonged with cords or lines, form the main
support of the building. The spinnerets never touch this part
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac: enabled him to come to Paris for, at any rate, a few hours. A friend
of Marie-Gaston, an English nobleman with whom he had been intimate in
Florence, came out to see him, and the sad man greeted the new-comer
with apparent joy.
In order to distract Sallenauve's thoughts from this anxiety, Madame
de l'Estorade introduced him to Monsieur Octave de Camps, the latter
having expressed a great desire to know him. The deputy had not talked
ten minutes with the iron-master before he reached his heart by the
magnitude of the metallurgical knowledge his conversation indicated.
During the year in which he had been preparing for a parliamentary
life, Sallenauve had busied himself by acquiring the practical
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