| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lesser Hippias by Plato: other things.
SOCRATES: Then may we further assume, Hippias, that there are men who are
false about calculation and number?
HIPPIAS: Yes.
SOCRATES: Who can they be? For you have already admitted that he who is
false must have the ability to be false: you said, as you will remember,
that he who is unable to be false will not be false?
HIPPIAS: Yes, I remember; it was so said.
SOCRATES: And were you not yourself just now shown to be best able to
speak falsely about calculation?
HIPPIAS: Yes; that was another thing which was said.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: think of that novel and that evening, I am impatient with all others;
they seem but shadows and impostors; they cannot satisfy the appetite
which this awakened; and I dare be known to think it the best of Sir
Walter's by nearly as much as Sir Walter is the best of novelists.
Perhaps Mr. Lang is right, and our first friends in the land of
fiction are always the most real. And yet I had read before this GUY
MANNERING, and some of WAVERLEY, with no such delighted sense of
truth and humour, and I read immediately after the greater part of
the Waverley Novels, and was never moved again in the same way or to
the same degree. One circumstance is suspicious: my critical
estimate of the Waverley Novels has scarce changed at all since I was
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: He to whom the torment comes it shall disgrace him, and there
shall alight upon him lasting torment.
Verily, we have sent down to thee the Book for men in truth; and
whosoever is guided it is for his own soul: but whoso goes astray it
is against them, and thou art not a guardian for them.
God takes to Himself souls at the time of their death; and those
which do not die (He takes) in their sleep; and He holds back those on
whom He has decreed death, and sends others back till their
appointed time;-verily, in that are signs unto a people who reflect.
Do they take besides God intercessors? Say, 'What! though they
have no control over anything and have no sense.'
The Koran |
