| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Heritage of the Desert by Zane Grey: He crossed the plateau and began the descent. Before he was half-way
down the vvarrn bright sun had cleared the valley of vapor and shadow.
Far along the winding white trail shone a speck. It was Silvermane
almost out of sight.
"Ten miles--fifteen, more maybe," said Hare. "Mescal will soon be in the
village."
Again hours of travel flew by like winged moments. Thoughts of time,
distance, monotony, fatigue, purpose, were shut out from his mind. A
rushing kaleidoscopic dance of images filled his consciousness, but they
were all of Mescal. Safety for her had unsealed the fountain of
happiness.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Dark Lady of the Sonnets by George Bernard Shaw: flesh in him, and tortured him to nervous breakdown and madness." In
Timon the intellectual bankruptcy is obvious enough: Shakespear tried
once too often to make a play out of the cheap pessimism which is
thrown into despair by a comparison of actual human nature with
theoretical morality, actual law and administration with abstract
justice, and so forth. But Shakespear's perception of the fact that
all men, judged by the moral standard which they apply to others and
by which they justify their punishment of others, are fools and
scoundrels, does not date from the Dark Lady complication: he seems
to have been born with it. If in The Comedy of Errors and A Midsummer
Night's Dream the persons of the drama are not quite so ready for
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: may be compared the power given to his disciples by Jesus[1]
"to tread on serpents and scorpions." Hercules also as
a Sungod compares curiously with Samson (mentioned
above, ii), but we need not dwell on all the
elaborate analogies that have been traced[2] between these two
heroes.
[1] Luke x. 19.
[2] See Doane's Bible Myths, ch. viii, (New York, 1882.)
The Jesus-story, it will now be seen, has a great number
of correspondences with the stories of former Sungods and
with the actual career of the Sun through the heavens--so
Pagan and Christian Creeds |
