| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lysis by Plato: delighted, seeing that I myself, although I am now advanced in years, am so
far from having made a similar acquisition, that I do not even know in what
way a friend is acquired. But I want to ask you a question about this, for
you have experience: tell me then, when one loves another, is the lover or
the beloved the friend; or may either be the friend?
Either may, I should think, be the friend of either.
Do you mean, I said, that if only one of them loves the other, they are
mutual friends?
Yes, he said; that is my meaning.
But what if the lover is not loved in return? which is a very possible
case.
Lysis |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: decreed whereon ye asked me for a decision!'
And he said to him whom he thought would escape of those two,
Remember me with thy lord!' But Satan made him forget the
remembrance of his lord, so he tarried in prison a few years.
Then said the king, 'Verily, I see seven fat kine which seven lean
kine devoured; and seven green ears of corn and others dry. O ye
chiefs! Explain to me my vision, if a vision ye can expound!'
Said they, 'Confused dreams, and naught of the exposition of such
dreams know we!'
Then he who had escaped of those twain said,- remembering after a
while,- 'Verily, I will inform you of the interpretation thereof, so
The Koran |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Monster Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs: I shall not go to live with savage beasts, nor shall you.
Come with me as I tell you, or you shall again taste the bull whip."
"We shall do as we please," growled Number Ten, baring
his fangs. "You are not our master. We have followed
you as long as we intend to. We are tired of forever
walking, walking, walking through the bushes that tear
our flesh and hurt us. Go and be a human being if you
think you can, but do not longer interfere with us or
we shall kill you," and he looked first at Number Three
and then at Number Twelve for approval of his ultimatum.
Number Three nodded his grotesque and hideous head--
The Monster Men |
