| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Laches by Plato: that common quality which is called courage, and which includes all the
various uses of the term when applied both to pleasure and pain, and in all
the cases to which I was just now referring?
LACHES: I should say that courage is a sort of endurance of the soul, if I
am to speak of the universal nature which pervades them all.
SOCRATES: But that is what we must do if we are to answer the question.
And yet I cannot say that every kind of endurance is, in my opinion, to be
deemed courage. Hear my reason: I am sure, Laches, that you would
consider courage to be a very noble quality.
LACHES: Most noble, certainly.
SOCRATES: And you would say that a wise endurance is also good and noble?
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from When the Sleeper Wakes by H. G. Wells: Far off and high up he presently saw a pallid
light of a semi-circular shape. As he approached this,
a black edge came up and hid it. He stumbled at
steps and found himself in a gallery. He heard a
sobbing, and found two scared little girls crouched
by a railing. These children became silent at the
near sound of feet. He tried to console them, but
they were very still until he left them. Then as he
receded he could hear them sobbing again.
Presently he found himself at the foot of a staircase
and near a wide opening. He saw a dim twilight
When the Sleeper Wakes |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: My son - a trained
psychologist with the fullest and most sympathetic knowledge of
my whole case - shall be the primary judge of what I have to tell.
First let me outline the externals of the matter, as those at
the camp know them. On the night of July 17-18, after a windy
day, I retired early but could not sleep. Rising shortly before
eleven, and afflicted as usual with that strange feeling regarding
the northeastward terrain, I set out on one of my typical nocturnal
walks; seeing and greeting only one person - an Australian miner
named Tupper - as I left our precincts.
The moon, slightly past
Shadow out of Time |
