| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Parmenides by Plato: on the supposition either of the being or of the not-being of one?
By all means, said Zeno.
And who will answer me? he said. Shall I propose the youngest? He will
not make difficulties and will be the most likely to say what he thinks;
and his answers will give me time to breathe.
I am the one whom you mean, Parmenides, said Aristoteles; for I am the
youngest and at your service. Ask, and I will answer.
Parmenides proceeded: 1.a. If one is, he said, the one cannot be many?
Impossible.
Then the one cannot have parts, and cannot be a whole?
Why not?
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Passion in the Desert by Honore de Balzac: scratched her head as hard as he could. When he saw that he was
successful, he tickled her skull with the point of his dagger,
watching for the right moment to kill her, but the hardness of her
bones made him tremble for his success.
The sultana of the desert showed herself gracious to her slave; she
lifted her head, stretched out her neck and manifested her delight by
the tranquility of her attitude. It suddenly occurred to the soldier
that to kill this savage princess with one blow he must poniard her in
the throat.
He raised the blade, when the panther, satisfied no doubt, laid
herself gracefully at his feet, and cast up at him glances in which,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Silas Marner by George Eliot: I shouldn't like to leave anything to be found out, like this of
Dunsey," said Godfrey, meditatively. "But I can't see anything
but difficulties that 'ud come from telling it now. I must do what
I can to make her happy in her own way. I've a notion," he added,
after a moment's pause, "it's Aaron Winthrop she meant she was
engaged to. I remember seeing him with her and Marner going away
from church."
"Well, he's very sober and industrious," said Nancy, trying to
view the matter as cheerfully as possible.
Godfrey fell into thoughtfulness again. Presently he looked up at
Nancy sorrowfully, and said--
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