| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay: conversation, as if it were for that purpose we had met.
"'Pain,' I replied, 'for pain drives out pleasure.'
'What is greater than Pain?'
"I reflected. 'Love. Because we will accept our loved one's share
of pain.'
" 'But what is greater than Love?' he persisted.
"'Nothing, Slofork.'
"'And what is Nothing?'
"'That you must tell me.'
"'Tell you I will. This is Shaping's world. He that is a good child
here, knows pleasure, pain, and love, and gets his rewards. But
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Menexenus by Plato: SOCRATES: Yes, I do; and besides her I had Connus, the son of Metrobius,
as a master, and he was my master in music, as she was in rhetoric. No
wonder that a man who has received such an education should be a finished
speaker; even the pupil of very inferior masters, say, for example, one who
had learned music of Lamprus, and rhetoric of Antiphon the Rhamnusian,
might make a figure if he were to praise the Athenians among the Athenians.
MENEXENUS: And what would you be able to say if you had to speak?
SOCRATES: Of my own wit, most likely nothing; but yesterday I heard
Aspasia composing a funeral oration about these very dead. For she had
been told, as you were saying, that the Athenians were going to choose a
speaker, and she repeated to me the sort of speech which he should deliver,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: which he injected into the veins of dead things, and if they were
fresh enough they responded in strange ways. He had had much trouble
in discovering the proper formula, for each type of organism was
found to need a stimulus especially adapted to it. Terror stalked
him when he reflected on his partial failures; nameless things
resulting from imperfect solutions or from bodies insufficiently
fresh. A certain number of these failures had remained alive --
one was in an asylum while others had vanished -- and as he thought
of conceivable yet virtually impossible eventualities he often
shivered beneath his usual stolidity.
West had soon learned
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