| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay: ceased abruptly, and was not repeated.
"What's that?" called out Maskull, disengaging himself impatiently
from Krag.
Krag rocked with laughter. "A Scottish spirit trying to reproduce
the bagpipes of its earth life - in honour of our departure."
Nightspore turned to Krag. "Maskull will sleep throughout the
journey?"
"And you too, if you wish, my altruistic friend. I am pilot, and you
passengers can amuse yourselves as you please."
"Are we off at last?" asked Maskull.
"Yes, you are about to cross your Rubicon, Maskull. But what a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 2 by Alexis de Toqueville: with; hints will not always suffice to shake him off. I
contradict an American at every word he says, to show him that
his conversation bores me; he instantly labors with fresh
pertinacity to convince me; I preserve a dogged silence, and he
thinks I am meditating deeply on the truths which he is uttering;
at last I rush from his company, and he supposes that some urgent
business hurries me elsewhere. This man will never understand
that he wearies me to extinction unless I tell him so: and the
only way to get rid of him is to make him my enemy for life.
It appears surprising at first sight that the same man
transported to Europe suddenly becomes so sensitive and captious,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Odyssey by Homer: far and wide, after he had sacked the sacred citadel of
Troy, and many were the men whose towns he saw and whose
mind he learnt, yea, and many the woes he suffered in his
heart on the deep, striving to win his own life and the
return of his company. Nay, but even so he saved not his
company, though he desired it sore. For through the
blindness of their own hearts they perished, fools, who
devoured the oxen of Helios Hyperion: but the god took from
them their day of returning. Of these things, goddess,
daughter of Zeus, whencesoever thou hast heard thereof,
declare thou even unto us.
The Odyssey |
