| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Meno by Plato: MENO: I often wonder, Socrates, that Gorgias is never heard promising to
teach virtue: and when he hears others promising he only laughs at them;
but he thinks that men should be taught to speak.
SOCRATES: Then do you not think that the Sophists are teachers?
MENO: I cannot tell you, Socrates; like the rest of the world, I am in
doubt, and sometimes I think that they are teachers and sometimes not.
SOCRATES: And are you aware that not you only and other politicians have
doubts whether virtue can be taught or not, but that Theognis the poet says
the very same thing?
MENO: Where does he say so?
SOCRATES: In these elegiac verses (Theog.):
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf: "Now--you've no excuse!"
With a silver pencil she wrote her name and address on the flyleaf
of _Persuasion_, and gave the book to Rachel. Sailors were
shouldering the luggage, and people were beginning to congregate.
There were Captain Cobbold, Mr. Grice, Willoughby, Helen, and an
obscure grateful man in a blue jersey.
"Oh, it's time," said Clarissa. "Well, good-bye. I _do_ like you,"
she murmured as she kissed Rachel. People in the way made it
unnecessary for Richard to shake Rachel by the hand; he managed
to look at her very stiffly for a second before he followed his wife
down the ship's side.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: authority. The final conclusion of the linguists was that the
text represented an artificial alphabet, giving the effect of
a cipher; though none of the usual methods of cryptographic solution
seemed to furnish any clue, even when applied on the basis of
every tongue the writer might conceivably have used. The ancient
books taken from Whateley's quarters, while absorbingly interesting
and in several cases promising to open up new and terrible lines
of research among philosophers and men of science, were of no
assistance whatever in this matter. One of them, a heavy tome
with an iron clasp, was in another unknown alphabet - this one
of a very different cast, and resembling Sanskrit more than anything
The Dunwich Horror |
