| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Parmenides by Plato: out of this, it is in the same, which is itself.
True.
And that which is ever in the same, must be ever at rest?
Certainly.
Well, and must not that, on the contrary, which is ever in other, never be
in the same; and if never in the same, never at rest, and if not at rest,
in motion?
True.
Then the one being always itself in itself and other, must always be both
at rest and in motion?
Clearly.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Extracts From Adam's Diary by Mark Twain: on about them like this when their dinner disagreed with them.
Sunday
She doesn't work Sundays, but lies around all tired out, and likes
to have the fish wallow over her; and she makes fool noises to
amuse it, and pretends to chew its paws, and that makes it laugh.
I have not seen a fish before that could laugh. This makes me
doubt. ... I have come to like Sunday myself. Superintending
all the week tires a body so. There ought to be more Sundays.
In the old days they were tough, but now they come handy.
Wednesday
It isn't a fish. I cannot quite make out what it is. It makes
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Octopus by Frank Norris: me."
"Ten thousand?"
"Yes. Say five thousand down, and the balance within sixty
days."
Magnus, for the moment blind to what Genslinger had in mind,
turned on him in astonishment.
"Why, man, what security could you give me for such an amount?"
"Well, to tell the truth," answered the editor, "I hadn't thought
much about securities. In fact, I believed you would see how
greatly it was to your advantage to talk business with me. You
see, I'm not going to print this article about you, Governor, and
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