| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Republic by Plato: waves; yet shall the word be spoken, even though the wave break and drown
me in laughter and dishonour; and do you mark my words.
Proceed.
I said: 'Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this
world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and
wisdom meet in one, and those commoner natures who pursue either to the
exclusion of the other are compelled to stand aside, cities will never have
rest from their evils,--nor the human race, as I believe,--and then only
will this our State have a possibility of life and behold the light of
day.' Such was the thought, my dear Glaucon, which I would fain have
uttered if it had not seemed too extravagant; for to be convinced that in
The Republic |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy: Moscow from jealousy, which they had so dreaded when they moved
from the country.
One event, an event of great importance to both from that point
of view, did indeed happen--that was Kitty's meeting with
Vronsky.
The old Princess Marya Borissoyna, Kitty's godmother, who had
always been very fond of her, had insisted on seeing her. Kitty,
though she did not go into society at all on account of her
condition, went with her father to see the venerable old lady,
and there met Vronsky.
The only thing Kitty could reproach herself for at this meeting
Anna Karenina |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from U. S. Project Trinity Report by Carl Maag and Steve Rohrer: Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
Alamogordo Bombing Range
Manhattan Engineer District
Manhattan Project
Personnel Dosimetry
Radiation Exposure
Nuclear Weapons Testing
20. ABSTRACT: This report describes the activities of an estimated
1,000 personnel, both military and civilian, in Project TRINITY, which
culminated in detonation of the first nuclear device, in New Mexico in
1945. Scientific and diagnostic experiments to evaluate the effects
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