| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot: 'Do
'You know nothing? Do you see nothing? Do you remember
'Nothing?'
I remember
Those are pearls that were his eyes.
'Are you alive, or not? Is there nothing in your head?'
But
O O O O that Shakespeherian Rag --
It's so elegant
So intelligent 130
'What shall I do now? What shall I do?'
The Waste Land |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Art of War by Sun Tzu: the ears and eyes of the host may be focused on one particular
point.
[Chang Yu says: "If sight and hearing converge
simultaneously on the same object, the evolutions of as many as a
million soldiers will be like those of a single man."!]
25. The host thus forming a single united body, is it
impossible either for the brave to advance alone, or for the
cowardly to retreat alone.
[Chuang Yu quotes a saying: "Equally guilty are those who
advance against orders and those who retreat against orders." Tu
Mu tells a story in this connection of Wu Ch`i, when he was
The Art of War |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad: with unseeing eyes the headland come out a shapeless inkblot
against the thin light of the false dawn, pass through all the
stages of daybreak to the deep purple of its outlined mass nimbed
gloriously with the gold of the rising sun. He listened to the
vague sounds of waking within the house: and suddenly he became
aware of Luiz standing by the hammock - obviously troubled.
"What's the matter?"
"Tse! Tse! Tse!"
"Well, what now? Trouble with the boys?"
"No, master. The gentleman when I take him his bath water he speak
to me. He ask me - he ask - when, when, I think Mr. Walter, he
Within the Tides |
