| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: a country which leaves its medical and literary criticism, or
indeed any such vitally important criticism, entirely to private
enterprise and open to the advances of any purchaser must be in a
frankly hopeless condition. These are ideal conceptions of mine.
As a matter of fact, nothing would be more entirely natural and
representative of the relations of learning, thought and the
economic situation in the world at the present time than this
cover of the Sacred Grove--the quiet conservatism of the one
element embedded in the aggressive brilliance of the other; the
contrasted notes of bold physiological experiment and extreme
mental immobility.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Moral Emblems by Robert Louis Stevenson: 'Nothing as yet,' the Fool replies.
MORAL TALES
Poem: I - ROBIN AND BEN: OR, THE PIRATE AND THE APOTHECARY
Come, lend me an attentive ear
A startling moral tale to hear,
Of Pirate Rob and Chemist Ben,
And different destinies of men.
Deep in the greenest of the vales
That nestle near the coast of Wales,
The heaving main but just in view,
Robin and Ben together grew,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King Lear by William Shakespeare: The ways are dangerous.
Osw. I may not, madam.
My lady charg'd my duty in this business.
Reg. Why should she write to Edmund? Might not you
Transport her purposes by word? Belike,
Something- I know not what- I'll love thee much-
Let me unseal the letter.
Osw. Madam, I had rather-
Reg. I know your lady does not love her husband;
I am sure of that; and at her late being here
She gave strange eyeliads and most speaking looks
King Lear |
