| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Cratylus by Plato: Again, he ridicules the arbitrary methods of pulling out and putting in
letters which were in vogue among the philologers of his time; or slightly
scoffs at contemporary religious beliefs. Lastly, he is impatient of
hearing from the half-converted Cratylus the doctrine that falsehood can
neither be spoken, nor uttered, nor addressed; a piece of sophistry
attributed to Gorgias, which reappears in the Sophist. And he proceeds to
demolish, with no less delight than he had set up, the Heracleitean theory
of language.
In the latter part of the dialogue Socrates becomes more serious, though he
does not lay aside but rather aggravates his banter of the Heracleiteans,
whom here, as in the Theaetetus, he delights to ridicule. What was the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum: grandfather pleaded hard, for he knew the Monkeys would drown in
the river with their wings tied, and Quelala said a kind word for
them also; so that Gayelette finally spared them, on condition
that the Winged Monkeys should ever after do three times the
bidding of the owner of the Golden Cap. This Cap had been made
for a wedding present to Quelala, and it is said to have cost the
princess half her kingdom. Of course my grandfather and all the
other Monkeys at once agreed to the condition, and that is how it
happens that we are three times the slaves of the owner of the
Golden Cap, whosoever he may be."
"And what became of them?" asked Dorothy, who had been greatly
The Wizard of Oz |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: a visite; I called for some ale purposelie to heare one of
them blesse it. It fell Mr. Robinsone to seeke the blessing,
who said one of the most bombastick graces that ever I heard
in my life. He summoned God Allmightie very imperiouslie to
be their secondarie (for that was his language). "And if,"
said he, "thou wilt not be our Secondarie, we will not fight
for thee at all, for it is not our cause bot thy cause; and
if thou wilt not fight for our cause and thy oune cause, then
we are not obliged to fight for it. They say," said he,
"that Dukes, Earles, and Lords are coming with the King's
General against us, bot they shall be nothing bot a threshing
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