| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Several Works by Edgar Allan Poe: And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadows on the floor;
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
Shall be lifted--nevermore!
The Masque of the Red Death
by Edgar Allan Poe
October, 1997 [Etext #1064]*
The Masque of the Red Death
The "Red Death" had long devastated the country. No
pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was its
Avatar and its seal--the redness and the horror of blood. There were
sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then profuse bleeding at the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Republic by Plato: to us that justice is better than injustice, but show what they either of
them do to the possessor of them, which makes the one to be a good and the
other an evil, whether seen or unseen by gods and men.
I had always admired the genius of Glaucon and Adeimantus, but on hearing
these words I was quite delighted, and said: Sons of an illustrious
father, that was not a bad beginning of the Elegiac verses which the
admirer of Glaucon made in honour of you after you had distinguished
yourselves at the battle of Megara:--
'Sons of Ariston,' he sang, 'divine offspring of an illustrious hero.'
The epithet is very appropriate, for there is something truly divine in
being able to argue as you have done for the superiority of injustice, and
The Republic |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: than the women in the navy caps and the shop-boys in the blazers.
His observations on these types, his general interpretation of the
show, brought home to her the prospect of Chalk Farm. She wondered
sometimes that he should have derived so little illumination,
during his period, from the society at Cocker's. But one evening
while their holiday cloudlessly waned he gave her such a proof of
his quality as might have made her ashamed of her many
suppressions. He brought out something that, in all his overflow,
he had been able to keep back till other matters were disposed of.
It was the announcement that he was at last ready to marry--that he
saw his way. A rise at Chalk Farm had been offered him; he was to
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