| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from 1984 by George Orwell: have committed suicide, she might have been transferred to the other end
of Oceania: worst and likeliest of all, she might simply have changed her
mind and decided to avoid him.
The next day she reappeared. Her arm was out of the sling and she had a
band of sticking-plaster round her wrist. The relief of seeing her was
so great that he could not resist staring directly at her for several
seconds. On the following day he very nearly succeeded in speaking to her.
When he came into the canteen she was sitting at a table well out from the
wall, and was quite alone. It was early, and the place was not very full.
The queue edged forward till Winston was almost at the counter, then was
held up for two minutes because someone in front was complaining that he
1984 |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: that the Great Spirit may bring new birth and salvation
to some under the form of Osiris, equally well as to others
under the form of Jesus, or again to some under the form
of a Siberian totem-Bear equally as to others under the
form of Osiris, these questionings and narrowings fall
away as of no importance. We in this latter day can see
the main thing, namely that Christianity was and is just
one phase of a world-old religion, slowly perhaps expanding
its scope, but whose chief attitudes and orientations have been
the same through the centuries.
[1] The same happened with regard to another great Pagan doctrine
Pagan and Christian Creeds |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Aeneid by Virgil: Twelve follow'd ev'ry chief, and left a space between.
The first young Priam led; a lovely boy,
Whose grandsire was th' unhappy king of Troy;
His race in after times was known to fame,
New honors adding to the Latian name;
And well the royal boy his Thracian steed became.
White were the fetlocks of his feet before,
And on his front a snowy star he bore.
Then beauteous Atys, with Iulus bred,
Of equal age, the second squadron led.
The last in order, but the first in place,
Aeneid |
