| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Moby Dick by Herman Melville: King of Babylon; and to have been Belshazzar, not haughtily but
courteously, therein certainly must have been some touch of mundane
grandeur. But he who in the rightly regal and intelligent spirit
presides over his own private dinner-table of invited guests, that
man's unchallenged power and dominion of individual influence for the
time; that man's royalty of state transcends Belshazzar's, for
Belshazzar was not the greatest. Who has but once dined his friends,
has tasted what it is to be Caesar. It is a witchery of social
czarship which there is no withstanding. Now, if to this
consideration you superadd the official supremacy of a ship-master,
then, by inference, you will derive the cause of that peculiarity of
Moby Dick |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: armed men, and our drunken beasts are all disarmed. Draw, and
let us fight our way."
"Binna rash--binna rash," exclaimed Hobbie; "hear me a bit, hear
me a bit. We mean ye nae harm; but, as ye are in arms for King
James, as ye ca' him, and the prelates, we thought it right to
keep up the auld neighbour war, and stand up for the t'other ane
and the Kirk; but we'll no hurt a hair o' your heads, if ye like
to gang hame quietly. And it will be your best way, for there's
sure news come frae Loudoun, that him they ca' Bang, or Byng, or
what is't, has bang'd the French ships and the new king aff the
coast however; sae ye had best bide content wi' auld Nanse for
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lysis by Plato: But what if the lover is not loved in return? which is a very possible
case.
Yes.
Or is, perhaps, even hated? which is a fancy which sometimes is entertained
by lovers respecting their beloved. Nothing can exceed their love; and yet
they imagine either that they are not loved in return, or that they are
hated. Is not that true?
Yes, he said, quite true.
In that case, the one loves, and the other is loved?
Yes.
Then which is the friend of which? Is the lover the friend of the beloved,
Lysis |
