| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Eryxias by Platonic Imitator: things which are of greater value to him than to a stranger would be richer
than the stranger?
ERASISTRATUS: True.
SOCRATES: And if any one gave you a choice, which of these would you
prefer?
ERASISTRATUS: That which was most valuable.
SOCRATES: In which way do you think you would be the richer?
ERASISTRATUS: By choosing as I said.
SOCRATES: And he appears to you to be the richest who has goods of the
greatest value?
ERASISTRATUS: He does.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe: poor as to be in want; at least they had enough to subsist them
moderately for two or three months, when, as they said, they were in
hopes the cold weather would check the infection, or at least the
violence of it would have spent itself, and would abate, if it were only
for want of people left alive to he infected.
This was much the fate of our three travellers, only that they seemed
to be the better furnished for travelling, and had it in their view to go
farther off; for as to the first, they did not propose to go farther than
one day's journey, that so they might have intelligence every two or
three days how things were at London.
But here our travellers found themselves under an unexpected
A Journal of the Plague Year |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: been left in that uniform state until the glacial sheet came to
crystallize the lower part for all succeeding time. Indeed, one
gained a curious impression that this place had been deliberately
closed and deserted in some dim, bygone aeon, rather than overwhelmed
by any sudden calamity or even gradual decay. Had the coming of
the ice been foreseen, and had a nameless population left en masse
to seek a less doomed abode? The precise physiographic conditions
attending the formation of the ice sheet at this point would have
to wait for later solution. It had not, very plainly, been a grinding
drive. Perhaps the pressure of accumulated snows had been responsible,
and perhaps some flood from the river, or from the bursting of
At the Mountains of Madness |
