| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lady Baltimore by Owen Wister: Hortense saw no need of noticing me further
"The singer has the worst of it," said Gazza.
"But since you all sang!" I laughed.
"Miss Rieppe, she is cool," continued Gazza. "And she danced. It is not
fair."
John contributed nothing. He was by no means playing up now. He was
looking away at the shore.
Gazza hummed a little fragment. "But after lunch I will sing you good
music."
"So long as it keeps us cool," I suggested.
"Ah, no! It will not be cool music!" cried Gazza--"for those who
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: raise - which impels me to make this record.
My son - a trained
psychologist with the fullest and most sympathetic knowledge of
my whole case - shall be the primary judge of what I have to tell.
First let me outline the externals of the matter, as those at
the camp know them. On the night of July 17-18, after a windy
day, I retired early but could not sleep. Rising shortly before
eleven, and afflicted as usual with that strange feeling regarding
the northeastward terrain, I set out on one of my typical nocturnal
walks; seeing and greeting only one person - an Australian miner
named Tupper - as I left our precincts.
Shadow out of Time |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Philebus by Plato: observation that 'we are not always conscious of what we are doing or of
what happens to us,' a chance expression to which if philosophers had
attended they would have escaped many errors in psychology. We may
contrast the contempt which is poured upon the verbal difficulty of the one
and many, and the seriousness with the unity of opposites is regarded from
the higher point of view of abstract ideas: or compare the simple manner
in which the question of cause and effect and their mutual dependence is
regarded by Plato (to which modern science has returned in Mill and Bacon),
and the cumbrous fourfold division of causes in the Physics and Metaphysics
of Aristotle, for which it has puzzled the world to find a use in so many
centuries. When we consider the backwardness of knowledge in the age of
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