| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: DANCER (). One hardly in general expects
one warrior to praise another for his dancing! But when
one realizes what is really meant--namely the fitness of
the loved comrade to lead in religious and magical rituals
--then indeed the compliment takes on a new complexion.
Religious dances, in dedication to a god, have of course been
honored in every country. Muller, in the work just
cited,[1] describes a lively dance called the hyporchema
which, accompanied by songs, was used in the worship
of Apollo. "In this, besides the chorus of singers who
usually danced around THE BLAZING ALTAR, several persons
Pagan and Christian Creeds |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Firm of Nucingen by Honore de Balzac: the opinions of experts ('the princes of science'), were negotiated
shamefacedly in the silence and shadow of the Bourse. Lynx-eyed
speculators used to execute (financially speaking) the air Calumny out
of The Barber of Seville. They went about piano, piano, making known
the merits of the concern through the medium of stock-exchange gossip.
They could only exploit the victim in his own house, on the Bourse, or
in company; so they reached him by means of the skilfully created
rumor which grew till it reached a tutti of a quotation in four
figures----"
"And as we can say anything among ourselves," said Couture, "I will go
back to the last subject."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald: taxi-window.
"All kinds. What kind do you want, lady?"
"I'd like to get one of those police dogs; I don't suppose you got that
kind?"
The man peered doubtfully into the basket, plunged in his hand and drew
one up, wriggling, by the back of the neck.
"That's no police dog," said Tom.
"No, it's not exactly a polICE dog," said the man with disappointment
in his voice. "It's more of an Airedale." He passed his hand over the
brown wash-rag of a back. "Look at that coat. Some coat. That's a dog
that'll never bother you with catching cold."
The Great Gatsby |
