| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Symposium by Xenophon: medley ended. Callias here called on Charmides.
Call. Now, Charmides, it lies with you to tell us why you pride
yourself on poverty.[48]
[48] Zeune, cf. "Cyrop." VIII. iii. 35-50.
Charmides responded: On all hands it is admitted, I believe, that
confidence is better than alarm; better to be a freeman than a slave;
better to be worshipped than pay court to others; better to be trusted
than to be suspected by one's country.
Well now, I will tell you how it fared with me in this same city when
I was wealthy. First, I lived in daily terror lest some burglar should
break into my house and steal my goods and do myself some injury. I
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: March hare."
In reclining the hare draws up the thighs under the flanks,[20]
putting its fore-legs together, as a rule, and stretching them out,
resting its chin on the tips of its feet. It spreads its ears out over
the shoulder-blades, and so shelters the tender parts of its body; its
hair serves as a protection,[21] being thick and of a downy texture.
When awake it keeps on blinking its eyelids,[22] but when asleep the
eyelids remain wide open and motionless, and the eyes rigidly fixed;
during sleep it moves its nostrils frequently, if awake less often.
[20] Pollux, v. 72.
[21] Or, "as a waterproof."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: in its own age, while the lately captive mind would return to
that body of the future to which it properly belonged.
Only
when one or the other of the bodies had died during the exchange
was this restoration impossible. In such cases, of course, the
exploring mind had - like those of the death-escapers - to live
out an alien-bodied life in the future; or else the captive mind-like
the dying permanent exiles - had to end its days in the form and
past age of the Great Race.
This fate was least horrible when
the captive mind was also of the Great Race - a not infrequent
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