| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lysis by Plato: should perish with it?
None.
Then, even if evil perishes, the desires which are neither good nor evil
will remain?
Clearly they will.
And must not a man love that which he desires and affects?
He must.
Then, even if evil perishes, there may still remain some elements of love
or friendship?
Yes.
But not if evil is the cause of friendship: for in that case nothing will
Lysis |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Cruise of the Jasper B. by Don Marquis: Among them, he declared, was Leonidas, the hero of Thermopylae.
George admitted he was not a sailor, but professed a willingness
to learn, and looked so capable, as he squared his bulky
shoulders and twisted his fine black mustache, that Cleggett
engaged him, taking him immediately from the dairy lunch room in
which he had been employed. George's idea was to work his way
back to Greece, he said, on the Jasper B. If she did not sail
for Greece for some time, George was willing to wait; he was
patient; sometime, no doubt, she would touch the shores of
Greece.
The hold of the Jasper B. Cleggett and Captain Abernethy found to
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from War and the Future by H. G. Wells: organise themselves against any counter attack that may face the
barrage fire.
That is the formula of the present fighting, which the French
have developed. After an advance there is a pause, while the
guns move up nearer the Germans and fresh aeroplane
reconnaissance goes on. Nowhere on this present offensive has a
German counter attack had more than the most incidental success;
and commonly they have had frightful losses. Then after a few
days of refreshment and accumulation, the Allied attack resumes.
That is the perfected method of the French offensive. I had the
pleasure of learning its broad outlines in good company, in the
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