| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Phaedrus by Plato: the same theme.
SOCRATES: You will be true to your nature in that, and therefore I believe
you.
PHAEDRUS: Speak, and fear not.
SOCRATES: But where is the fair youth whom I was addressing before, and
who ought to listen now; lest, if he hear me not, he should accept a non-
lover before he knows what he is doing?
PHAEDRUS: He is close at hand, and always at your service.
SOCRATES: Know then, fair youth, that the former discourse was the word of
Phaedrus, the son of Vain Man, who dwells in the city of Myrrhina
(Myrrhinusius). And this which I am about to utter is the recantation of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne: was not with you. Come up hither once again, and we will stand
all three together. "
She silently ascended the steps, and stood on the platform,
holding little Pearl by the hand. The minister felt for the
child's other hand, and took it. The moment that he did so,
there came what seemed a tumultuous rush of new life, other life
than his own pouring like a torrent into his heart, and hurrying
through all his veins, as if the mother and the child were
communicating their vital warmth to his half-torpid system. The
three formed an electric chain.
The Scarlet Letter |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Hellenica by Xenophon: The ground being thus cleared, as it were, and feeling that they had
it in their power to do what they pleased, they embarked on a course
of wholesale butchery, to which many were sacrificed to the merest
hatred, many to the accident of possessing riches. Presently the
question rose, How they were to get money to pay their guards? and to
meet this difficulty a resolution was passed empowering each of the
committee to seize on one of the resident aliens apiece, to put his
victim to death, and to confiscate his property. Theramenes was
invited, or rather told to seize some one or other. "Choose whom you
will, only let it be done." To which he made answer, it hardly seemed
to him a noble or worthy course on the part of those who claimed to be
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