| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Crito by Plato: been neutral in the death-struggle of Athens was not likely to conciliate
popular good-will. Plato, writing probably in the next generation,
undertakes the defence of his friend and master in this particular, not to
the Athenians of his day, but to posterity and the world at large.
Whether such an incident ever really occurred as the visit of Crito and the
proposal of escape is uncertain: Plato could easily have invented far more
than that (Phaedr.); and in the selection of Crito, the aged friend, as the
fittest person to make the proposal to Socrates, we seem to recognize the
hand of the artist. Whether any one who has been subjected by the laws of
his country to an unjust judgment is right in attempting to escape, is a
thesis about which casuists might disagree. Shelley (Prose Works) is of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz by L. Frank Baum: that's all."
"Tastes differ," murmured the dragonette, slowly drooping its scaley
eyelids over its yellow eyes, until they looked like half-moons.
Being reassured by the fact that the creatures could not crawl out of
their rock-pockets, the children and the Wizard now took time to
examine them more closely. The heads of the dragonettes were as big
as barrels and covered with hard, greenish scales that glittered
brightly under the light of the lanterns. Their front legs, which
grew just back of their heads, were also strong and big; but their
bodies were smaller around than their heads, and dwindled away in a
long line until their tails were slim as a shoe-string. Dorothy
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: of the future life is better for those who believe and who have
feared.
And his brethren came to Joseph, and they entered in unto him and he
knew them, but they recognised not him.
And when he had equipped them with their equipment he said, 'Bring
me a brother that ye have from your father; do ye not see that I
give good measure, and that I am the best of entertainers? But if ye
bring him not to me, no measure shall ye have with me, nor shall ye
come nigh me.'
They said, 'We will desire him of our father, and we will surely
do it.'
The Koran |
