| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Cratylus by Plato: explained, or even adequately described. We can understand how man creates
or constructs consciously and by design; and see, if we do not understand,
how nature, by a law, calls into being an organised structure. But the
intermediate organism which stands between man and nature, which is the
work of mind yet unconscious, and in which mind and matter seem to meet,
and mind unperceived to herself is really limited by all other minds, is
neither understood nor seen by us, and is with reluctance admitted to be a
fact.
Language is an aspect of man, of nature, and of nations, the
transfiguration of the world in thought, the meeting-point of the physical
and mental sciences, and also the mirror in which they are reflected,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Rig Veda: his
tongue he eats the fuel.
With hands upraised, with reverence in the houses, for him
they
quickly bring his food together.
3 Seeking, as 'twere, his Mother's secret bosom, he, like a
child,
creeps on through wide-spread bushes.
One he finds glowing like hot food made ready, and kissing
deep within
the earth's recmes.
The Rig Veda |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy: at a poor wambler reading your thoughts so plain. Ay, I'm as wise
as one here and there.'
'I thought you had better have a practical man to go over the
church and tower with you,' Mr. Swancourt said to Stephen the
following morning, 'so I got Lord Luxellian's permission to send
for a man when you came. I told him to be there at ten o'clock.
He's a very intelligent man, and he will tell you all you want to
know about the state of the walls. His name is John Smith.'
Elfride did not like to be seen again at the church with Stephen.
'I will watch here for your appearance at the top of the tower,'
she said laughingly. 'I shall see your figure against the sky.'
A Pair of Blue Eyes |
