| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Ion by Plato: the art of medicine?
ION: Certainly not.
SOCRATES: And this is true of all the arts;--that which we know with one
art we do not know with the other? But let me ask a prior question: You
admit that there are differences of arts?
ION: Yes.
SOCRATES: You would argue, as I should, that when one art is of one kind
of knowledge and another of another, they are different?
ION: Yes.
SOCRATES: Yes, surely; for if the subject of knowledge were the same,
there would be no meaning in saying that the arts were different,--if they
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Phantasmagoria and Other Poems by Lewis Carroll: The fire was getting low -
Through driving mists I seemed to see
A Thing that smirked and smiled:
And found that he was giving me
A lesson in Biography,
As if I were a child.
CANTO IV - Hys Nouryture
"OH, when I was a little Ghost,
A merry time had we!
Each seated on his favourite post,
We chumped and chawed the buttered toast
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: the trunks of the great trees; and although they live mostly on
fungi it is muttered that they have also a slight taste for meat,
either physical or spiritual, for certainly many dreamers have
entered that wood who have not come out. Carter, however, had
no fear; for he was an old dreamer and had learnt their fluttering
language and made many a treaty with them; having found through
their help the splendid city of Celephais in Ooth-Nargai beyond
the Tanarian Hills, where reigns half the year the great King
Kuranes, a man he had known by another name in life. Kuranes was
the one soul who had been to the star-gulls and returned free
from madness.
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath |
