| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from In a German Pension by Katherine Mansfield: handkerchief.
There are no trees in the "Luft Bad." It boasts a collection of plain,
wooden cells, a bath shelter, two swings and two odd clubs--one, presumably
the lost property of Hercules or the German army, and the other to be used
with safety in the cradle.
And there in all weathers we take the air--walking, or sitting in little
companies talking over each other's ailments and measurements and ills that
flesh is heir to.
A high wooden wall compasses us all about; above it the pine-trees look
down a little superciliously, nudging each other in a way that is
peculiarly trying to a debutante. Over the wall, on the right side, is the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Parmenides by Plato: smallest fraction, this, which seemed one, in a moment evanesces into many,
as in a dream, and from being the smallest becomes very great, in
comparison with the fractions into which it is split up?
Very true.
And in such particles the others will be other than one another, if others
are, and the one is not?
Exactly.
And will there not be many particles, each appearing to be one, but not
being one, if one is not?
True.
And it would seem that number can be predicated of them if each of them
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Proposed Roads To Freedom by Bertrand Russell: competition for scholarships among the abler children:
they will not be imbued with the competitive spirit
from infancy, or forced to use their brains to an
unnatural degree with consequent listlessness and lack
of health in later life. Education will be far more
diversified than at present; greater care will be taken
to adapt it to the needs of different types of young
people. There will be more attempt to encourage
initiative young pupils, and less desire to fill their
minds with a set of beliefs and mental habits regarded
as desirable by the State, chiefly because they help
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