| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Alcibiades I by Plato: sending him to be taught by our friends the many?
ALCIBIADES: Very true.
SOCRATES: But if we wanted further to know not only which are men and
which are horses, but which men or horses have powers of running, would the
many still be able to inform us?
ALCIBIADES: Certainly not.
SOCRATES: And you have a sufficient proof that they do not know these
things and are not the best teachers of them, inasmuch as they are never
agreed about them?
ALCIBIADES: Yes.
SOCRATES: And suppose that we wanted to know not only what men are like,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Odyssey by Homer: was panic stricken lest Proserpine should send up from the house
of Hades the head of that awful monster Gorgon. On this I
hastened back to my ship and ordered my men to go on board at
once and loose the hawsers; so they embarked and took their
places, whereon the ship went down the stream of the river
Oceanus. We had to row at first, but presently a fair wind
sprang up.
Book XII
THE SIRENS, SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS, THE CATTLE OF THE SUN.
"After we were clear of the river Oceanus, and had got out into
the open sea, we went on till we reached the Aeaean island where
The Odyssey |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from U. S. Project Trinity Report by Carl Maag and Steve Rohrer: Five other men from the earth-sampling group entered the ground zero
area in a second tank, lined with lead for radiation protection. The
tank, carrying the driver and one passenger, made five trips into the
ground zero area to retrieve soil samples on 16 and 17 July. On two
trips, the tank passed over ground zero; on the others, it approached
to within about 90 meters of ground zero. The men scooped up soil
samples through a trap door in the bottom of the tank. One driver who
made three trips into the ground zero area received the highest
exposure, 15 roentgens (1).
This lead-lined tank was also used by ten men to observe the radiation
area. These men, traveling two at a time, made five trips into the
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