| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll: At seeing the Butcher so shy:
And even the Baker, though stupid and stout,
Made an effort to wink with one eye.
"Be a man!" said the Bellman in wrath, as he heard
The Butcher beginning to sob.
"Should we meet with a Jubjub, that desperate bird,
We shall need all our strength for the job!"
Fit the Fifth
THE BEAVER'S LESSON
They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care;
They pursued it with forks and hope;
The Hunting of the Snark |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells: and pretty, but not a patch on the Doric;--and that a whole
continent should come up to it and stick at it and never get
past it! . . ."
"It's the classical tradition."
"It puzzles me."
"It's the Roman Empire. That Corinthian column is a weed
spread by the Romans all over western Europe."
"And it smothers the history of Europe. You can't see Europe
because of it. Europe is obsessed by Rome. Everywhere Marble
Arches and ARCS DE TRIOMPHE. You never get away from it. It
is like some old gentleman who has lost his way in a speech
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Confessio Amantis by John Gower: Such on that scholde him prively 3460
Al one into hire chambre bringe.
He thonketh hire of that tidinge,
For of that grace him is begonne
Him thenkth alle othre thinges wonne.
The dai made ende and lost his lyht,
And comen was the derke nyht,
Which al the daies yhe blente.
Jason tok leve and forth he wente,
And whan he cam out of the pres,
He tok to conseil Hercules, 3470
Confessio Amantis |
