| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Phaedo by Plato: variance with them? For example, when the body is hot and thirsty, does
not the soul incline us against drinking? and when the body is hungry,
against eating? And this is only one instance out of ten thousand of the
opposition of the soul to the things of the body.
Very true.
But we have already acknowledged that the soul, being a harmony, can never
utter a note at variance with the tensions and relaxations and vibrations
and other affections of the strings out of which she is composed; she can
only follow, she cannot lead them?
It must be so, he replied.
And yet do we not now discover the soul to be doing the exact opposite--
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Kwaidan by Lafcadio Hearn: court-room.; for there were many present who remembered it. And Kwairyo
immediately found himself among friends instead of judges, -- friends
anxious to prove their admiration by fraternal kindness. With honor they
escorted him to the residence of the daimyo, who welcomed him, and feasted
him, and made him a handsome present before allowing him to depart. When
Kwairyo left Suwa, he was as happy as any priest is permitted to be in this
transitory world. As for the head, he took it with him, -- jocosely
insisting that he intended it for a miyage.
And now it only remains to tell what became of the head.
A day or two after leaving Suwa, Kwairyo met with a robber, who stopped
him in a lonesome place, and bade him strip. Kwairyo at once removed his
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: had willed that Myles was to die.
Then the Earl turned again, and rode deliberately up to his
prostrate enemy.
When Myles opened his eyes after that moment of stunning silence,
it was to see the other looming above him on his war-horse,
swinging his gisarm for one last mortal blow--pitiless,
merciless.
The sight of that looming peril brought back Myles's wandering
senses like a flash of lightning. He flung up his shield, and met
the blow even as it descended, turning it aside. It only
protracted the end.
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