| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Republic by Plato: these false notions and live in this miserable manner.
Imagine once more, I said, such an one coming suddenly out of the sun to be
replaced in his old situation; would he not be certain to have his eyes
full of darkness?
To be sure, he said.
And if there were a contest, and he had to compete in measuring the shadows
with the prisoners who had never moved out of the den, while his sight was
still weak, and before his eyes had become steady (and the time which would
be needed to acquire this new habit of sight might be very considerable),
would he not be ridiculous? Men would say of him that up he went and down
he came without his eyes; and that it was better not even to think of
The Republic |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from At the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs: good-bye, and it was with a heavy heart that I strode
through the flower-bespangled grass to my doom.
When I had come close enough to Jubal to distinguish
his features I understood how it was that he had earned
the sobriquet of Ugly One. Apparently some fearful
beast had ripped away one entire side of his face.
The eye was gone, the nose, and all the flesh, so that
his jaws and all his teeth were exposed and grinning
through the horrible scar.
Formerly he may have been as good to look upon as the others
of his handsome race, and it may be that the terrible
At the Earth's Core |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Riverman by Stewart Edward White: Orde went on:
"I got into your department a little, too."
"How's that?" asked Newmark, spearing a baked potato. "Heinzman
said he'd buy some of our stock. He seems to think we have a pretty
good show."
Newmark paused, his potato half-way to his plate.
"Kind of him," said he after a moment. "Did he sign a contract?"
"It wasn't made out," Orde reminded him. "I've the memoranda here.
We'll make it out to-night. I am to bring it in Monday."
"I see we're hung up here over Sunday," observed Newmark. "No
Sunday trains to Redding."
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