| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lysis by Plato: can be the friend of the bad.
True.
But neither can like be the friend of like, as we were just now saying.
True.
And if so, that which is neither good nor evil can have no friend which is
neither good nor evil.
Clearly not.
Then the good alone is the friend of that only which is neither good nor
evil.
That may be assumed to be certain.
And does not this seem to put us in the right way? Just remark, that the
Lysis |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Life of the Spider by J. Henri Fabre: explains this strange flight; for precise observation is impossible
amid the disturbing influences out of doors. What is wanted is a
peaceful atmosphere and the quiet of my study.
I gather the family in a large box, which I close at once, and
instal it in the animals' laboratory, on a small table, two steps
from the open window. Apprised by what I have just seen of their
propensity to resort to the heights, I give my subjects a bundle of
twigs, eighteen inches tall, as a climbing-pole. The whole band
hurriedly clambers up and reaches the top. In a few moments there
is not one lacking in the group on high. The future will tell us
the reason of this assemblage on the projecting tips of the twigs.
The Life of the Spider |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Phoenix and the Turtle by William Shakespeare: 'Mongst our mourners shalt thou go.
Here the anthem doth commence:
Love and constancy is dead;
Phoenix and the turtle fled
In a mutual flame from hence.
So they lov'd, as love in twain
Had the essence but in one;
Two distincts, division none:
Number there in love was slain.
Hearts remote, yet not asunder;
Distance, and no space was seen
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