| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Gambara by Honore de Balzac: have failed to attend the performance."
This retort put an end to the tactics of those who wanted to set
Gambara off on his high horse to amuse the new guest. Andrea was
already conscious of an unwillingness to expose so noble and pathetic
a mania as a spectacle for so much vulgar shrewdness. It was with no
base reservation that he kept up a desultory conversation, in the
course of which Signor Giardini's nose not infrequently interposed
between two remarks. Whenever Gambara uttered some elegant repartee or
some paradoxical aphorism, the cook put his head forward, to glance
with pity at the musician and with meaning at the Count, muttering in
his ear, "/E matto/!"
Gambara |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: criticism, that they utterly failed to comprehend the
requirements of the problem. Their aims were in the main polemic,
not historical. They thought more of overthrowing current dogmas
than of impartially examining the earliest Christian literature
with a view of eliciting its historic contents; and, accordingly,
they accomplished but little. Two brilliant exceptions must,
however, be noticed. Spinoza, in the seventeenth century, and
Lessing, in the eighteenth, were men far in advance of their age.
They are the fathers of modern historical criticism; and to
Lessing in particular, with his enormous erudition and
incomparable sagacity, belongs the honour of initiating that
The Unseen World and Other Essays |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Hamlet by William Shakespeare: after his desart, and who should scape whipping: vse
them after your own Honor and Dignity. The lesse they
deserue, the more merit is in your bountie. Take them
in
Pol. Come sirs.
Exit Polon.
Ham. Follow him Friends: wee'l heare a play to morrow.
Dost thou heare me old Friend, can you play the
murther of Gonzago?
Play. I my Lord
Ham. Wee'l ha't to morrow night. You could for a
Hamlet |
