| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot: 411. Cf. INFERNO, xxxiii. 46:
ed io sentii chiavar l'uscio di sotto
all'orribile torre.
Also F. H. Bradley, _Appearance and Reality_, p. 346:
My external sensations are no less private to myself than are my
thoughts or my feelings. In either case my experience falls within
my own circle, a circle closed on the outside; and, with all its
elements alike, every sphere is opaque to the others which surround
it. . . . In brief, regarded as an existence which appears in a soul,
the whole world for each is peculiar and private to that soul.
424. _V._ Weston, _From Ritual to Romance_; chapter on the Fisher King.
The Waste Land |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lady Susan by Jane Austen: must be very humiliating to a girl of Frederica's age. And, by-the-by, you
had better not invite her any more on that account, as I wish her to find
her situation as unpleasant as possible. I am sure of Sir James at any
time, and could make him renew his application by a line. I shall trouble
you meanwhile to prevent his forming any other attachment when he comes to
town. Ask him to your house occasionally, and talk to him of Frederica,
that he may not forget her. Upon the whole, I commend my own conduct in
this affair extremely, and regard it as a very happy instance of
circumspection and tenderness. Some mothers would have insisted on their
daughter's accepting so good an offer on the first overture; but I could
not reconcile it to myself to force Frederica into a marriage from which
Lady Susan |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Heroes by Charles Kingsley: with wine, 'Holla, tall stranger at the door, what is your
will to-day?'
'I come hither to ask for hospitality.'
'Then take it, and welcome. You look like a hero and a bold
warrior; and we like such to drink with us.'
'I ask no hospitality of you; I ask it of AEgeus the king,
the master of this house.'
At that some growled, and some laughed, and shouted, 'Heyday!
we are all masters here.'
'Then I am master as much as the rest of you,' said Theseus,
and he strode past the table up the hall, and looked around
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