| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Parmenides by Plato: Yes.
Then the one, if of such a nature, has greatness and smallness?
That appears to be true.
And greatness and smallness always stand apart?
True.
Then there is always something between them?
There is.
And can you think of anything else which is between them other than
equality?
No, it is equality which lies between them.
Then that which has greatness and smallness also has equality, which lies
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Prince of Bohemia by Honore de Balzac: The words stared me in the face--'At the request of Jean Francois du
Bruel and Claudine Chaffaroux, his wife----' /Here/ was the
explanation of the whole matter. I offered my arm to Claudine, and
allowed the guests to descend the stairs in front of us. When we were
alone--'If I were La Palferine,' I said, 'I would not break an
appointment.'
"Gravely she laid her finger on her lips. She leant on my arm as we
went downstairs, and looked at me with almost something like happiness
in her eyes because I knew La Palferine. Can you see the first idea
that occurred to her? She thought of making a spy of me, but I turned
her off with the light jesting talk of Bohemia.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy: the witnesses having stated that it was he who
had smashed Ivan Mironov's head with a stone.
Stepan concealed nothing when in court. He con-
tented himself with explaining that, having been
robbed of his two last horses, he had informed the
police. Now it was comparatively easy at that
time to trace the horses with the help of profes-
sional thieves among the gipsies. But the police
officer would not even permit him, and no search
had been ordered.
"Nothing else could be done with such a man.
The Forged Coupon |
