| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas: "Oh, the flower! you must take it with you. You understand
that you must not separate from it for an instant."
"But whilst I am not separating from it, I am separating
from you, Mynheer Cornelius."
"Ah! that's true, my sweet Rosa. Oh, my God! how wicked men
are! What have I done to offend them, and why have they
deprived me of my liberty? You are right, Rosa, I cannot
live without you. Well, you will send some one to Haarlem,
-- that's settled; really, the matter is wonderful enough
for the President to put himself to some trouble. He will
come himself to Loewestein to see the tulip."
The Black Tulip |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from De Profundis by Oscar Wilde: fall of a flower to one who is mowing down the grass with a scythe.
Great passions are for the great of soul, and great events can be
seen only by those who are on a level with them.
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I know of nothing in all drama more incomparable from the point of
view of art, nothing more suggestive in its subtlety of
observation, than Shakespeare's drawing of Rosencrantz and
Guildenstern. They are Hamlet's college friends. They have been
his companions. They bring with them memories of pleasant days
together. At the moment when they come across him in the play he
is staggering under the weight of a burden intolerable to one of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: of the presumably weak heart, which to my mind imperilled the
success of our experiment, did not appear to trouble West extensively.
He hoped at last to obtain what he had never obtained before --
a rekindled spark of reason and perhaps a normal, living creature.
So on the night of July 18, 1910, Herbert West and I stood in
the cellar laboratory and gazed at a white, silent figure beneath
the dazzling arc-light. The embalming compound had worked uncannily
well, for as I stared fascinatedly at the sturdy frame which had
lain two weeks without stiffening, I was moved to seek West’s
assurance that the thing was really dead. This assurance he gave
readily enough; reminding me that the reanimating solution was
Herbert West: Reanimator |
