| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Beasts of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: enter the clearing and join the group of savage beasts assembled there.
At first sight of the man she had been positive that he would
be torn to pieces, and she had half risen from her shelter,
raising her rifle to her shoulder to do what she could to
avert the man's terrible fate.
Now she saw that he seemed actually conversing with the beasts--
issuing orders to them.
Presently the entire company filed on across the clearing
and disappeared in the jungle upon the opposite side.
With a gasp of mingled incredulity and relief Jane Clayton
staggered to her feet and fled on away from the terrible horde
The Beasts of Tarzan |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Meno by Plato: such a class of mental goods, will it be taught or not? Let the first
hypothesis be that virtue is or is not knowledge,--in that case will it be
taught or not? or, as we were just now saying, 'remembered'? For there is
no use in disputing about the name. But is virtue taught or not? or
rather, does not every one see that knowledge alone is taught?
MENO: I agree.
SOCRATES: Then if virtue is knowledge, virtue will be taught?
MENO: Certainly.
SOCRATES: Then now we have made a quick end of this question: if virtue
is of such a nature, it will be taught; and if not, not?
MENO: Certainly.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence: softly, as if she were a flower, without the quiver of desire, but with
delicate nearness. And still there haunted her a restless necessity to
get a grip on love.
'Say you'll always love me!' she pleaded.
'Ay!' he said, abstractedly. And she felt her questions driving him
away from her.
'Mustn't we get up?' he said at last.
'No!' she said.
But she could feel his consciousness straying, listening to the noises
outside.
'It'll be nearly dark,' he said. And she heard the pressure of
Lady Chatterley's Lover |
