| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Scarecrow of Oz by L. Frank Baum: sound, as the tail revolved, and a brisk flapping of
the peculiar wings, but they were more interested just
then in following with their eyes the tiny speck of
light which marked the location of the candle. This
light first made a great circle, then dropped slowly
downward and suddenly was extinguished, leaving
everything before them black as ink.
"Hi, there! How did that happen?" cried the Ork.
"It blew out, I guess," shouted Cap'n Bill. "Fetch it
here."
"I can't see where you are," said the Ork.
The Scarecrow of Oz |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Young Forester by Zane Grey: "It's runnin' up the draw. We don't stand no showdown in hyar. Grab a hoss
now, an' we'll try to head acrost the ridge."
I remounted Target, and the three men caught horses and climbed up
bareback. Bill led the way across the glade, up the slope, into the level
forest. There we broke into a gallop. The air upon this higher ground was
dark and thick, but not so hard to breathe as that lower down. We pressed
on. For a while the roar receded, and almost deadened. Then it grew clearer
again' filled out, and swelled. Bud wanted to sheer off to the left. Herky
swore we were being surrounded. Bill turned a deaf ear to them. From my own
sense of direction I fancied we were going wrong, but Bill was so cool he
gave me courage. Soon a blue, windy haze, shrouding the giant pines ahead,
The Young Forester |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Cratylus by Plato: in motion, and some are swifter than others: dikaiosune is clearly e tou
dikaiou sunesis. The word dikaion is more troublesome, and appears to mean
the subtle penetrating power which, as the lovers of motion say, preserves
all things, and is the cause of all things, quasi diaion going through--the
letter kappa being inserted for the sake of euphony. This is a great
mystery which has been confided to me; but when I ask for an explanation I
am thought obtrusive, and another derivation is proposed to me. Justice is
said to be o kaion, or the sun; and when I joyfully repeat this beautiful
notion, I am answered, 'What, is there no justice when the sun is down?'
And when I entreat my questioner to tell me his own opinion, he replies,
that justice is fire in the abstract, or heat in the abstract; which is not
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