| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay: "What else can I think? But, Polecrab, what's your opinion - is he
calling me to the life after death?"
The old man stirred uneasily. "I'm a fisherman," he said, after a
minute or two. "I live by killing, and so does everybody. This life
seems to me all wrong. So maybe life of any kind is wrong, and
Surtur's world is not life at all, but something else."
"Yes, but will death lead me to it, whatever it is?"
"Ask the dead," said Polecrab, "and not a living man."
Maskull continued. "In the forest I heard music and saw a light,
which could not have belonged to this world. They were too strong
for my senses, and I must have fainted for a long time. There was a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Theaetetus by Plato: examples?--that is the question.' 'I am often perplexed and amazed,
Socrates, by these difficulties.' 'That is because you are a philosopher,
for philosophy begins in wonder, and Iris is the child of Thaumas. Do you
know the original principle on which the doctrine of Protagoras is based?'
'No.' 'Then I will tell you; but we must not let the uninitiated hear, and
by the uninitiated I mean the obstinate people who believe in nothing which
they cannot hold in their hands. The brethren whose mysteries I am about
to unfold to you are far more ingenious. They maintain that all is motion;
and that motion has two forms, action and passion, out of which endless
phenomena are created, also in two forms--sense and the object of sense--
which come to the birth together. There are two kinds of motions, a slow
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Sesame and Lilies by John Ruskin: proving his power. My books got talked about a little. The prices
of modern pictures, generally, rose, and I was beginning to take
some pleasure in a sense of gradual victory, when, fortunately or
unfortunately, an opportunity of perfect trial undeceived me at
once, and for ever. The Trustees of the National Gallery
commissioned me to arrange the Turner drawings there, and permitted
me to prepare three hundred examples of his studies from nature, for
exhibition at Kensington. At Kensington they were, and are, placed
for exhibition; but they are not exhibited, for the room in which
they hang is always empty.
Well--this showed me at once, that those ten years of my life had
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