Repository: UIHistories Project: Dedication - College of Education Dedication [PAGE 13]

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Now we see through a glass, darkly," As told by Bui finch, "The Fates were also three — Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos. Their office was to spin the thread of human destiny, and they were armed with shears, with which they cut it off when they pleased." Plato was more direct: "These are the Fates," he related, "daughters of Necessity. . . . Lachesis singing of the past, Clotho of the present, Atropos of the future." Perhaps I can qualify as a descendant of Atropos, for I have been instructed by my fellows on the staff, from whom I dutifully take my orders, to sing of the future. But I am in trouble: My singing is off-key, and as to the future I see only "through a glass, darkly." Surely, though, I can claim to be a creature of Necessity.