| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The War in the Air by H. G. Wells: experience.
He did not know where he might be drifting, or what might happen
next. He accepted this state of affairs with a serenity
creditable to the Smallways' courage, which one might reasonably
have expected to be of a more degenerate and contemptible quality
altogether. His impression was that he was bound to come down
somewhere, and that then, if he wasn't smashed, some one, some
"society" perhaps, would probably pack him and the balloon back
to England. If not, he would ask very firmly for the British
Consul.
"Le consuelo Britannique," he decided this would be. "Apportez
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Charmides by Plato: inform us of any particular subject, such as medicine, building, and the
like. It may tell us that we or other men know something, but can never
tell us what we know.
Admitting that there is a knowledge of what we know and of what we do not
know, which would supply a rule and measure of all things, still there
would be no good in this; and the knowledge which temperance gives must be
of a kind which will do us good; for temperance is a good. But this
universal knowledge does not tend to our happiness and good: the only kind
of knowledge which brings happiness is the knowledge of good and evil. To
this Critias replies that the science or knowledge of good and evil, and
all the other sciences, are regulated by the higher science or knowledge of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: his death! For the last time he was looking upon the faces
of his fellow men; for the last time he had seen the sun
rise, never again to see it set.
He was to be "destroyed." He had heard that expression
used many times in connection with useless horses, or vicious
dogs. Mechanically he drew a cigarette from his pocket and
lighted it. There was no bravado in the act. On the contrary
it was done almost unconsciously. The soldiers marched him
through the streets of Burgova. The men were entirely im-
passive--even so early in the war they had become accus-
tomed to this grim duty. The young officer who commanded
The Mad King |
