| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lysis by Plato: arguments, like men, are often pretenders.
How do you mean? he asked.
Well, I said; look at the matter in this way: a friend is the friend of
some one; is he not?
Certainly he is.
And has he a motive and object in being a friend, or has he no motive and
object?
He has a motive and object.
And is the object which makes him a friend, dear to him, or neither dear
nor hateful to him?
I do not quite follow you, he said.
Lysis |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Pupil by Henry James: "The difficulty is that your parents wouldn't hear of it. They'd
never part with you; they worship the ground you tread on. Don't
you see the proof of it?" Pemberton developed. "They don't dislike
me; they wish me no harm; they're very amiable people; but they're
perfectly ready to expose me to any awkwardness in life for your
sake."
The silence in which Morgan received his fond sophistry struck
Pemberton somehow as expressive. After a moment the child
repeated: "You are a hero!" Then he added: "They leave me with
you altogether. You've all the responsibility. They put me off on
you from morning till night. Why then should they object to my
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Scarecrow of Oz by L. Frank Baum: conquest myself."
"How?" asked Trot.
"Wait and see," was the reply. "But, first of all, I
must fly home again -- back to my own country -- so if
you'll forgive my leaving you so soon, I'll be off at
once. Stand away from my tail, please, so that the wind
from it, when it revolves, won't knock you over."
They gave the creature plenty of room and away it went
like a flash and soon disappeared in the sky.
"I wonder," said Button-Bright, looking solemnly after
the Ork, "whether he'll ever come back again."
The Scarecrow of Oz |
