| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: return one day, transformed in the embrace of love.
The whole process has had a deep and strange world-
significance. It has led to an immensely long period of
suppression--suppression of two great instincts--the physical
instinct of sex and the emotional instinct of love. Two
things which should naturally be conjoined have been
separated; and both have suffered. And we know from
the Freudian teachings what suppressions in the root-instincts
necessarily mean. We know that they inevitably
terminate in diseases and distortions of proper action,
either in the body or in the mind, or in both; and that
Pagan and Christian Creeds |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tales of Unrest by Joseph Conrad: chum in a tight place. I said impressively, pointing to Hollis--
"He is young, but he is wise. Believe him!"
Karain bent his head: Hollis threw lightly over it the dark-blue
ribbon and stepped back.
"Forget, and be at peace!" I cried.
Karain seemed to wake up from a dream. He said, "Ha!" shook himself as
if throwing off a burden. He looked round with assurance. Someone on
deck dragged off the skylight cover, and a flood of light fell into
the cabin. It was morning already.
"Time to go on deck," said Jackson.
Hollis put on a coat, and we went up, Karain leading.
Tales of Unrest |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Manon Lescaut by Abbe Prevost: "Before I received this visit, which I little expected so soon,
I had the honour of one from the lieutenant-general of police,
or, to call things by their right names, I was subjected to an
official examination. He upbraided me certainly, but not in any
harsh or annoying manner. He told me, in the kindest tone, that
he bitterly lamented my bad conduct; that I had committed a gross
indiscretion in making an enemy of such a man as M. G---- M----;
that in truth it was easy to see that there was, in the affair,
more of imprudence and folly than of malice; but that still it
was the second time I had been brought as a culprit under his
cognisance; and that he had hoped I should have become more
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