| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Children of the Night by Edwin Arlington Robinson: But here I am, and here are six or eight
Good friends, who most ingenuously prate
About my songs to such and such a one.
But everything is all askew to-night, --
As if the time were come, or almost come,
For their untenanted mirage of me
To lose itself and crumble out of sight,
Like a tall ship that floats above the foam
A little while, and then breaks utterly.
Sonnet
The master and the slave go hand in hand,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: aestate ad Veneticum bellum fecerat classem iubet convenire.
Interim, consilio eius cognito et per mercatores perlato ad Britannos,
a compluribus insulae civitatibus ad eum legati veniunt, qui polliceantur
obsides dare atque imperio populi Romani obtemperare. Quibus auditis,
liberaliter pollicitus hortatusque ut in ea sententia permanerent, eos
domum remittit et cum iis una Commium, quem ipse Atrebatibus superatis
regem ibi constituerat, cuius et virtutem et consilium probabat et quem
sibi fidelem esse arbitrabatur cuiusque auctoritas in his regionibus magni
habebatur, mittit. Huic imperat quas possit adeat civitates horteturque
ut populi Romani fidem sequantur seque celeriter eo venturum nuntiet.
Volusenus perspectis regionibus omnibus quantum ei facultatis dari potuit,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche: the help of this craze, are at present in power, and do not
suspect to what extent the disintegrating policy they pursue must
necessarily be only an interlude policy--owing to all this and
much else that is altogether unmentionable at present, the most
unmistakable signs that EUROPE WISHES TO BE ONE, are now
overlooked, or arbitrarily and falsely misinterpreted. With all
the more profound and large-minded men of this century, the real
general tendency of the mysterious labour of their souls was to
prepare the way for that new SYNTHESIS, and tentatively to
anticipate the European of the future; only in their simulations,
or in their weaker moments, in old age perhaps, did they belong
Beyond Good and Evil |
