| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from An Unsocial Socialist by George Bernard Shaw: an average successful painter. Again, consider our implements of
music--our pianofortes, for example. Nobody but an acrobat will
voluntarily spend years at such a difficult mechanical puzzle as
the keyboard, and so we have to take our impressions of
Beethoven's sonatas from acrobats who vie with each other in the
rapidity of their prestos, or the staying power of their left
wrists. Thoughtful men will not spend their lives acquiring
sleight-of-hand. Invent a piano which will respond as delicately
to the turning of a handle as our present ones do to the pressure
of the fingers, and the acrobats will be driven back to their
carpets and trapezes, because the sole faculty necessary to the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson: Salvini: 'I do not suppose any one with feelings could sit out
OTHELLO, if Iago and Desdemona were acted.' Salvini was, in his
view, the greatest actor he had seen. We were all indeed moved and
bettered by the visit of that wonderful man. - 'I declare I feel as
if I could pray!' cried one of us, on the return from HAMLET. -
'That is prayer,' said Fleeming. W. B. Hole and I, in a fine
enthusiasm of gratitude, determined to draw up an address to
Salvini, did so, and carried it to Fleeming; and I shall never
forget with what coldness he heard and deleted the eloquence of our
draft, nor with what spirit (our vanities once properly mortified)
he threw himself into the business of collecting signatures. It
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Confessio Amantis by John Gower: In foure, riht so ben divised
The Signes tuelve and stonde assised,
That ech of hem for his partie
Hath his climat to justefie.
Wherof the ferste regiment
Toward the part of Orient
From Antioche and that contre
Governed is of Signes thre,
That is Cancer, Virgo, Leo:
And toward Occident also 1250
From Armenie, as I am lerned,
Confessio Amantis |
