| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King Lear by William Shakespeare: The food of thy abused father's wrath!
Might I but live to see thee in my touch,
I'ld say I had eyes again!
Old Man. How now? Who's there?
Edg. [aside] O gods! Who is't can say 'I am at the worst'?
I am worse than e'er I was.
Old Man. 'Tis poor mad Tom.
Edg. [aside] And worse I may be yet. The worst is not
So long as we can say 'This is the worst.'
Old Man. Fellow, where goest?
Glou. Is it a beggarman?
King Lear |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Statesman by Plato: enact, that he who is found enquiring into the truth of navigation and
medicine, and is seeking to be wise above what is written, shall be called
not an artist, but a dreamer, a prating Sophist and a corruptor of youth;
and if he try to persuade others to investigate those sciences in a manner
contrary to the law, he shall be punished with the utmost severity. And
like rules might be extended to any art or science. But what would be the
consequence?
'The arts would utterly perish, and human life, which is bad enough
already, would become intolerable.'
But suppose, once more, that we were to appoint some one as the guardian of
the law, who was both ignorant and interested, and who perverted the law:
Statesman |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence: 'The women start adoring too late. But did she say she'd come?'
'Oh!' Connie imitated the breathless Miss Bentley, 'your Ladyship, if
ever I should dare to presume!'
'Dare to presume! how absurd! But I hope to God she won't turn up. And
how was her tea?'
'Oh, Lipton's and VERY strong. But Clifford, do you realize you are the
ROMAN DE LA ROSE of Miss Bentley and lots like her?'
'I'm not flattered, even then.'
'They treasure up every one of your pictures in the illustrated papers,
and probably pray for you every night. It's rather wonderful.'
She went upstairs to change.
Lady Chatterley's Lover |
