| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay: and for additional security he was compelled to encircle her waist
with it.
Directly he did so, he realised that he had been tricked, and that
this ride had been planned for one purpose only - to inflame his
desires.
The third arm possessed a function of its own, of which hitherto he
had been ignorant. It was a developed magn. But the stream of love
which was communicated to it was no longer pure and noble - it was
boiling, passionate, and torturing. He gritted his teeth, and kept
quiet, but Oceaxe had not plotted the adventure to remain unconscious
of his feelings. She looked around, with a golden, triumphant smile.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Dreams by Olive Schreiner: up again they were two twinkling stars, that vanished in the distance.
And the long, long night rolled on.
All who leave the valley of superstition pass through that dark land; but
some go through it in a few days, some linger there for months, some for
years, and some die there.
At last for the hunter a faint light played along the horizon, and he rose
to follow it; and he reached that light at last, and stepped into the broad
sunshine. Then before him rose the almighty mountains of Dry-facts and
Realities. The clear sunshine played on them, and the tops were lost in
the clouds. At the foot many paths ran up. An exultant cry burst from the
hunter. He chose the straightest and began to climb; and the rocks and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Theaetetus by Plato: to make like themselves.
THEODORUS: Disciples! my good sir, they have none; men of their sort are
not one another's disciples, but they grow up at their own sweet will, and
get their inspiration anywhere, each of them saying of his neighbour that
he knows nothing. From these men, then, as I was going to remark, you will
never get a reason, whether with their will or without their will; we must
take the question out of their hands, and make the analysis ourselves, as
if we were doing geometrical problem.
SOCRATES: Quite right too; but as touching the aforesaid problem, have we
not heard from the ancients, who concealed their wisdom from the many in
poetical figures, that Oceanus and Tethys, the origin of all things, are
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