| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Parmenides by Plato: that the contacts are one less in number than the terms; the first two
terms exceeded the number of contacts by one, and the whole number of terms
exceeds the whole number of contacts by one in like manner; and for every
one which is afterwards added to the number of terms, one contact is added
to the contacts.
True.
Whatever is the whole number of things, the contacts will be always one
less.
True.
But if there be only one, and not two, there will be no contact?
How can there be?
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tess of the d'Urbervilles, A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy: "He didn't take her!"
They pulled on in silence till Tess, without any
premonitory symptoms, burst out crying.
"There!" said Marian. "Now I wish I hadn't told 'ee!"
"No. It is a very good thing that you have done! I
have been living on in a thirtover, lackaday way, and
have not seen what it may lead to! I ought to have sent
him a letter oftener. He said I could not go to him,
but he didn't say I was not to write as often as I
liked. I won't dally like this any longer! I have
been very wrong and neglectful in leaving everything to
Tess of the d'Urbervilles, A Pure Woman |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: Melanie, scrambled to the ground and, reaching up, lifted Wade out.
The little boy sobbed, shrinking close to his nurse.
"Make him hush. I can't stand it," said Scarlett, taking the horse
by the bridle and pulling him to a reluctant start. "Be a little
man, Wade, and stop crying or I will come over there and slap you."
Why had God invented children, she thought savagely as she turned
her ankle cruelly on the dark road--useless, crying nuisances they
were, always demanding care, always in the way. In her exhaustion,
there was no room for compassion for the frightened child, trotting
by Prissy's side, dragging at her hand and sniffling--only a
weariness that she had borne him, only a tired wonder that she had
Gone With the Wind |
