| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Cratylus by Plato: into our heads, let us go on to Ares. He is the manly one (arren), or the
unchangeable one (arratos). Enough of the Gods; for, by the Gods, I am
afraid of them; but if you suggest other words, you will see how the horses
of Euthyphro prance. 'Only one more God; tell me about my godfather
Hermes.' He is ermeneus, the messenger or cheater or thief or bargainer;
or o eirein momenos, that is, eiremes or ermes--the speaker or contriver of
speeches. 'Well said Cratylus, then, that I am no son of Hermes.' Pan, as
the son of Hermes, is speech or the brother of speech, and is called Pan
because speech indicates everything--o pan menuon. He has two forms, a
true and a false; and is in the upper part smooth, and in the lower part
shaggy. He is the goat of Tragedy, in which there are plenty of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: It seems to me that her imagination is beginning to work.
Whilst she has been in the trance hitherto she has confined herself
to the simplest of facts. If this goes on it may ultimately mislead us.
If I thought that the Count's power over her would die away
equally with her power of knowledge it would be a happy thought.
But I am afraid that it may not be so.
When she did speak, her words were enigmatical, "Something is going out.
I can feel it pass me like a cold wind. I can hear, far off, confused sounds,
as of men talking in strange tongues, fierce falling water, and the howling
of wolves." She stopped and a shudder ran through her, increasing in
intensity for a few seconds, till at the end, she shook as though in a palsy.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Hermione's Little Group of Serious Thinkers by Don Marquis: me. How I strive for Harmony and Humility!
Nearly every night before I go to bed I say to my-
self: "Have I been HUMBLE today? Truly humble?
Or have I FAILED?"
Children are not nearly SIMPLE enough these days.
Oh, for more Simplicity! That is what we all need.
Though I will say this for Mamma -- that it
would have been hard to train Simplicity into me
even if she had known how.
I had such a high-strung, sensitive, nervous or-
ganism as a child, you know.
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