| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Paradise Lost by John Milton: All taste of living wight, as once it fled
The lip of Tantalus. Thus roving on
In confused march forlorn, th' adventurous bands,
With shuddering horror pale, and eyes aghast,
Viewed first their lamentable lot, and found
No rest. Through many a dark and dreary vale
They passed, and many a region dolorous,
O'er many a frozen, many a fiery alp,
Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death--
A universe of death, which God by curse
Created evil, for evil only good;
Paradise Lost |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Ion by Plato: ION: Yes.
SOCRATES: And he who judges of the good will be the same as he who judges
of the bad speakers?
ION: The same.
SOCRATES: And he will be the arithmetician?
ION: Yes.
SOCRATES: Well, and in discussions about the wholesomeness of food, when
many persons are speaking, and one speaks better than the rest, will he who
recognizes the better speaker be a different person from him who recognizes
the worse, or the same?
ION: Clearly the same.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: of her appeal had been a little blunted; for the young man
was not only destitute of sisters, but of any female relative
nearer than a great-aunt in Wales. Now he was alone,
besides, the spell that he had hitherto obeyed began to
weaken; he considered his behaviour with a sneer; and
plucking up the spirit of revolt, he started in pursuit. The
reader, if he has ever plied the fascinating trade of the
noctambulist, will not be unaware that, in the neighbourhood
of the great railway centres, certain early taverns
inaugurate the business of the day. It was into one of these
that Challoner, coming round the corner of the block, beheld
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