| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence: convinced that the air we normally breathe is a kind of water, and men
and women are a species of fish.
But sometimes the soul does come up, shoots like a kittiwake into the
light, with ecstasy, after having preyed on the submarine depths. It is
our mortal destiny, I suppose, to prey upon the ghastly subaqueous life
of our fellow-men, in the submarine jungle of mankind. But our immortal
destiny is to escape, once we have swallowed our swimmy catch, up again
into the bright ether, bursting out from the surface of Old Ocean into
real light. Then one realizes one's eternal nature.
When I hear Mrs Bolton talk, I feel myself plunging down, down, to the
depths where the fish of human secrets wriggle and swim. Carnal
Lady Chatterley's Lover |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pericles by William Shakespeare: GOWER.
Mere have you seen a mighty king
His child, I wis, to incest bring;
A better prince and benign lord,
That will prove awful both in deed word.
Be quiet then as men should be,
Till he hath pass'd necessity.
I'll show you those in troubles reign,
Losing a mite, a mountain gain.
The good in conversation,
To whom I give my benison,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Oscar Wilde Miscellaneous by Oscar Wilde: cavern in this desert where I too may dwell so that my soul may
become worthy to see God.
HONORIUS. The sun is setting, Myrrhina. Come with me to
Alexandria.
MYRRHINA. I will not go to Alexandria.
HONORIUS. Farewell, Myrrhina.
MYRRHINA. Honorius, farewell. No, no, do not go.
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I have cursed my beauty for what it has done, and cursed the wonder
of my body for the evil that it has brought upon you.
Lord, this man brought me to Thy feet. He told me of Thy coming
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