| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Sophist by Plato: The Platonic unity of differences or opposites is the beginning of the
modern view that all knowledge is of relations; it also anticipates the
doctrine of Spinoza that all determination is negation. Plato takes or
gives so much of either of these theories as was necessary or possible in
the age in which he lived. In the Sophist, as in the Cratylus, he is
opposed to the Heracleitean flux and equally to the Megarian and Cynic
denial of predication, because he regards both of them as making knowledge
impossible. He does not assert that everything is and is not, or that the
same thing can be affected in the same and in opposite ways at the same
time and in respect of the same part of itself. The law of contradiction
is as clearly laid down by him in the Republic, as by Aristotle in his
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Blix by Frank Norris: written.
"Send him--the red-headed man--that telegram. There's an office
just two doors below here, next the drug-store. I saw it as we
came by. You know his initials: remember, you saw them in his
hat. W. J. A., Luna's restaurant. That's all you want."
"Lord," muttered Condy, as he gazed upon what Blix had written.
"Do you dare?" she whispered, with a little hysterical shudder.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: "If I thought as you do, Hobbie," said the young gentleman, "I
would not perhaps enquire farther into this business; but as I am
of opinion that preternatural visitations are either ceased
altogether, or become very rare in our days, I am unwilling to
leave a matter uninvestigated which may concern the life of a
poor distracted being."
"Aweel, aweel, if ye really think that," answered Hobbie
doubtfully--"And it's for certain the very fairies--I mean the
very good neighbours themsells (for they say folk suldna ca' them
fairies) that used to be seen on every green knowe at e'en, are
no half sae often visible in our days. I canna depone to having
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