| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Parmenides by Plato: other than the one; but they differ from one another in virtue of otherness
and difference.
Certainly.
So that the other is not the same--either with the one or with being?
Certainly not.
And therefore whether we take being and the other, or being and the one, or
the one and the other, in every such case we take two things, which may be
rightly called both.
How so.
In this way--you may speak of being?
Yes.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tin Woodman of Oz by L. Frank Baum: enabled her to build this air wall around her house --
the house yonder. It was quite a clever idea, I think,
for it doesn't mar the beauty of the landscape, solid
air being invisible, and yet it keeps all strangers
away from the house."
"Does Nimmie Amee live there now?" asked the Tin
Woodman anxiously.
"Yes, indeed," said the rabbit.
"And does she weep and wail from morning till night?"
continued the Emperor.
"No; she seems quite happy," asserted the rabbit.
The Tin Woodman of Oz |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: great magician in his time, and a necromancer and a chemist and
an alchemist and mathematician and a rhetorician, an astronomer,
an astrologer, and a philosopher as well."
" Tis a long list of excellency," said old Bidpai.
" Tis not as long as was his head, " said Dr. Faustus.
"It would be good for us all to hear a story of such a man," said
old Bidpai.
"Nay," said Dr. Faustus, "the story is not altogether of the man
himself, but rather of a pupil who came to learn wisdom of him."
"And the name of your story is what?" said Fortunatus.
"It hath no name," said Dr. Faustus.
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