| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad: or claret size - was something unprecedented. The custom was to
pack the dollars in little bags of a hundred each. I don't know
how many bags each case would hold. A good lot. Pretty tidy sums
must have been moving afloat just then. But let us get away from
here. Won't do to stay in the sun. Where could we - ? I know!
let us go to those tiffin-rooms over there."
We moved over accordingly. Our appearance in the long empty room
at that early hour caused visible consternation amongst the China
boys. But Hollis led the way to one of the tables between the
windows screened by rattan blinds. A brilliant half-light trembled
on the ceiling, on the whitewashed walls, bathed the multitude of
Within the Tides |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Parmenides by Plato: Certainly.
If being and the one be two different things, it is not because the one is
one that it is other than being; nor because being is being that it is
other than the one; but they differ from one another in virtue of otherness
and difference.
Certainly.
So that the other is not the same--either with the one or with being?
Certainly not.
And therefore whether we take being and the other, or being and the one, or
the one and the other, in every such case we take two things, which may be
rightly called both.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Essays of Francis Bacon by Francis Bacon: agreeable to his nature, let him take no care for
any set times; for his thoughts will fly to it, of
themselves; so as the spaces of other business, or
studies, will suffice. A man's nature, runs either to
herbs or weeds; therefore let him seasonably water
the one, and destroy the other.
Of Custom
AND EDUCATION
MEN'S thoughts, are much according to their
inclination; their discourse and speeches,
according to their learning and infused opinions;
Essays of Francis Bacon |
