| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbot: suggests itself to me. When you see a Straight Line -- your wife,
for example -- how many Dimensions do you attribute to her?
I. Your Lordship would treat me as if I were one of the vulgar who,
being ignorant of Mathematics, suppose that a Woman is really
a Straight Line, and only of One Dimension. No, no, my Lord;
we Squares are better advised, and are as well aware as your Lordship
that a Woman, though popularly called a Straight Line, is,
really and scientifically, a very thin Parallelogram,
possessing Two Dimensions, like the rest of us, viz.,
length and breadth (or thickness).
STRANGER. But the very fact that a Line is visible implies
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: "thanks to them, they were loosed."
For my part, then, my advice to the young is, do not despise hunting
or the other training of your boyhood, if you desire to grow up to be
good men, good not only in war but in all else of which the issue is
perfection in thought, word, and deed.
II
The first efforts of a youth emerging from boyhood should be directed
to the institution of the chase, after which he should come to the
rest of education, provided he have the means and with an eye to the
same; if his means be ample, in a style worthy of the profit to be
derived; or, if they be scant, let him at any rate contribute
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot: Shall I at least set my lands in order?
London Bridge is falling down falling down falling down
_Poi s'ascose nel foco che gli affina
Quando fiam ceu chelidon_ -- O swallow swallow
_Le Prince d'Aquitaine à la tour abolie_
These fragments I have shored against my ruins 430
Why then Ile fit you. Hieronymo's mad againe.
Datta. Dayadhvam. Damyata.
Shantih shantih shantih
Line 415 aetherial] aethereal
Line 428 ceu] uti -- Editor
The Waste Land |
