| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay: handkerchief through the different fingers of her hand. The music
went on playing.
The figure was by this time unmistakably that of a man lying down.
The face focused itself into distinctness. The body was draped in a
sort of shroud, but the features were those of a young man. One
smooth hand fell over, nearly touching the floor, white and
motionless. The weaker spirits of the company stared at the vision
in sick horror; the. rest were grave and perplexed. The seeming man
was dead, but somehow it did not appear like a death succeeding life,
but like a death preliminary to life. All felt that he might sit up
at any minute.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Parmenides by Plato: but also the consequences which flow from denying the hypothesis; and that
will be still better training for you.
What do you mean? he said.
I mean, for example, that in the case of this very hypothesis of Zeno's
about the many, you should inquire not only what will be the consequences
to the many in relation to themselves and to the one, and to the one in
relation to itself and the many, on the hypothesis of the being of the
many, but also what will be the consequences to the one and the many in
their relation to themselves and to each other, on the opposite hypothesis.
Or, again, if likeness is or is not, what will be the consequences in
either of these cases to the subjects of the hypothesis, and to other
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mansion by Henry van Dyke: "Three or four thousand, perhaps, as a loan."
"Does the doctor say he will get well?"
"A fighting chance--the doctor says."
The face of the older man changed subtly. Not a line was
altered,
but it seemed to have a different substance, as if it were
carved out of some firm, imperishable stuff.
"A fighting chance," he said, "may do for a speculation, but it
is
not a good investment. You owe something to young Rollins.
Your grateful feeling does you credit. But don't overwork it.
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