| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: gods? Is it possible then that one who was prisoner and
mutilated should be a god? What folly? What man in his senses
could admit it?
"Next they introduce Zeus, who, they say, became king of the
gods, and would take the shape of animals, that he might defile
mortal women. They show him transformed into a bull, for Europa;
into gold, for Danae; into a swan, for Leda; into a satyr, for
Antiope; and into a thunder-bolt, for Semele. Then of these were
born many children, Dionysus, Zethus, Amphion, Herakles, Apollo,
Artemis, Perseus, Castor, Helen, Polydeukes, Minos, Rhadamanthos,
Sarpedon, and the nine daughters whom they call the Muses.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot: O the moon shone bright on Mrs. Porter
And on her daughter 200
They wash their feet in soda water
_Et, O ces voix d'enfants, chantant dans la coupole!_
Twit twit twit
Jug jug jug jug jug jug
So rudely forc'd.
Tereu
Unreal City
Under the brown fog of a winter noon
Mr. Eugenides, the Smyrna merchant
The Waste Land |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Edition of The Ambassadors by Henry James: at any rate," she pursued with a quick change, "appreciate the care
I take of Mr. Waymarsh."
"Oh immensely." But Strether was not yet in line. "At all events,"
he roundly brought out, "the attachment's an innocent one."
"Mine and his? Ah," she laughed, "don't rob it of ALL interest!"
"I mean our friend's here--to the lady we've been speaking of."
That was what he had settled to as an indirect but none the less
closely involved consequence of his impression of Jeanne. That was
where he meant to stay. "It's innocent," he repeated--"I see the
whole thing."
Mystified by his abrupt declaration, she had glanced over at
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