| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Duchess of Padua by Oscar Wilde: Have ever need at all to think about;
They say the bread, the very bread they eat,
Is made of sorry chaff.
FIRST CITIZEN
Ay! so it is,
Nothing but chaff.
DUKE
And very good food too,
I give it to my horses.
DUCHESS
[restraining herself]
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot: 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.
427. _V. Purgatorio_, xxvi. 148.
The Waste Land |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: this he took possession at the head of an old woman and a mop, and
was seen from the Tamasese breastwork directing operations and
plainly preparing to install himself there in a military posture.
So much he meant to be understood; so much he meant to carry out,
and an armed party from the ADAMS was to have garrisoned on the
morrow the scene of the atrocity. But there is no doubt he managed
to convey more. No doubt he was a master in the art of loose
speaking, and could always manage to be overheard when he wanted;
and by this, or some other equally unofficial means, he spread the
rumour that on the morrow he was to bombard.
The proposed post, from its position, and from Leary's well-
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