| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from In a German Pension by Katherine Mansfield: possible light out of this darkness."
"Why don't you join a touring company and leave your mother in Vienna?"
"What! Leave my poor, little, sick, widowed mother in Vienna! Sooner than
that I would drown myself. I love my mother as I love nobody else in the
world--nobody and nothing! Do you think it is impossible to love one's
tragedy? 'Out of my great sorrows I make my little songs,' that is Heine
or myself."
"Oh, well, that's all right," I said cheerfully.
"'But it is not all right!"
I suggested we should turn back. We turned.
"Sometimes I think the solution lies in marriage," said Fraulein Sonia.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Parmenides by Plato: be one whole, of which the parts will be parts; and each part will be one
part of the whole which is the whole of the part.
True.
And will not the things which participate in the one, be other than it?
Of course.
And the things which are other than the one will be many; for if the things
which are other than the one were neither one nor more than one, they would
be nothing.
True.
But, seeing that the things which participate in the one as a part, and in
the one as a whole, are more than one, must not those very things which
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Othello by William Shakespeare: O, I were damn'd beneath all depth in hell:
But that I did proceed vpon iust grounds
To this extremity. Thy Husband knew it all.
Aemil. My Husband?
Oth. Thy Husband.
Aemil. That she was false to Wedlocke?
Oth. I, with Cassio: had she bin true,
If Heauen would make me such another world,
Of one entyre and perfect Chrysolite,
I'ld not haue sold her for it.
Aemil. My Husband?
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