| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson: It is very nice to think
The world is full of meat and drink,
With little children saying grace
In every Christian kind of place.
III
At the Sea-side
When I was down beside the sea
A wooden spade they gave to me
To dig the sandy shore.
My holes were empty like a cup.
In every hole the sea came up,
A Child's Garden of Verses |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Odyssey by Homer: also be well seasoned.
{54} The reader will note that the river was flowing with salt
water i.e. that it was tidal.
{55} Then the Ogygian island was not so far off, but that
Nausicaa might be assumed to know where it was.
{56} Greek [Greek]
{57} I suspect a family joke, or sly allusion to some thing of
which we know nothing, in this story of Eurymedusa's having been
brought from Apeira. The Greek word "apeiros" means
"inexperienced," "ignorant." Is it possible that Eurymedusa was
notoriously incompetent?
The Odyssey |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Philebus by Plato: PROTARCHUS: Very true.
SOCRATES: And the knowledge which makes a man a musician is of the same
kind.
PROTARCHUS: How so?
SOCRATES: Sound is one in music as well as in grammar?
PROTARCHUS: Certainly.
SOCRATES: And there is a higher note and a lower note, and a note of equal
pitch:--may we affirm so much?
PROTARCHUS: Yes.
SOCRATES: But you would not be a real musician if this was all that you
knew; though if you did not know this you would know almost nothing of
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