| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield: Reginald's heart swelled with tenderness, but it was her voice, her soft
voice, that made him tremble. "I feel you've been here for years," she
said.
Reginald took a deep breath of his cigarette. "It's ghastly, this idea of
going back," be said.
"Coo-roo-coo-coo-coo," sounded from the quiet.
"But you're fond of being out there, aren't you?" said Anne. She hooked
her finger through her pearl necklace. "Father was saying only the other
night how lucky he thought you were to have a life of your own." And she
looked up at him. Reginald's smile was rather wan. "I don't feel
fearfully lucky," he said lightly.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Parmenides by Plato: whole one, or will contain the one?
Clearly.
If it be co-extensive with the one it will be co-equal with the one, or if
containing the one it will be greater than the one?
Of course.
But can smallness be equal to anything or greater than anything, and have
the functions of greatness and equality and not its own functions?
Impossible.
Then smallness cannot be in the whole of one, but, if at all, in a part
only?
Yes.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Eryxias by Platonic Imitator: ERYXIAS: Yes.
SOCRATES: Then gold and silver and all the other elements which are
supposed to make up wealth are only useful to the person who knows how to
use them?
ERYXIAS: Exactly.
SOCRATES: And were we not saying before that it was the business of a good
man and a gentleman to know where and how anything should be used?
ERYXIAS: Yes.
SOCRATES: The good and gentle, therefore will alone have profit from these
things, supposing at least that they know how to use them. But if so, to
them only will they seem to be wealth. It appears, however, that where a
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