| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lysis by Plato: not right?
Yes, certainly.
And may not the same be said of the friend? That which is only dear to us
for the sake of something else is improperly said to be dear, but the truly
dear is that in which all these so-called dear friendships terminate.
That, he said, appears to be true.
And the truly dear or ultimate principle of friendship is not for the sake
of any other or further dear.
True.
Then we have done with the notion that friendship has any further object.
May we then infer that the good is the friend?
Lysis |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson: suppose it was after this somewhat childish pleasure that Captain
Palliser had come so near the Bass. He was to pay dear for it in time.
During his approach I had the opportunity to make a remark upon the
rigging of that ship by which I ever after knew it miles away; and this
was a means (under Providence) of my averting from a friend a great
calamity, and inflicting on Captain Palliser himself a sensible
disappointment.
All the time of my stay on the rock we lived well. We had small ale
and brandy, and oatmeal, of which we made our porridge night and
morning. At times a boat came from the Castleton and brought us a
quarter of mutton, for the sheep upon the rock we must not touch, these
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: suddenly stopped at the word `drink'. What does it mean?"
Renfield seemed himself aware of having made a lapse,
for he hurried on, as though to distract my attention
from it, "I don't take any stock at all in such matters.
`Rats and mice and such small deer,' as Shakespeare has it,
`chicken feed of the larder' they might be called.
I'm past all that sort of nonsense. You might as well ask
a man to eat molecules with a pair of chopsticks, as to try
to interest me about the less carnivora, when I know of what
is before me."
"I see," I said."You want big things that you can make your teeth meet in?
Dracula |
