| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pierre Grassou by Honore de Balzac: there will be no Salon, and without the Salon art may perish.
Ever since the catalogue has grown into a book, many names have
appeared in it which still remain in their native obscurity, in spite
of the ten or a dozen pictures attached to them. Among these names
perhaps the most unknown to fame is that of an artist named Pierre
Grassou, coming from Fougeres, and called simply "Fougeres" among his
brother-artists, who, at the present moment holds a place, as the
saying is, "in the sun," and who suggested the rather bitter
reflections by which this sketch of his life is introduced,--
reflections that are applicable to many other individuals of the tribe
of artists.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mountains by Stewart Edward White: blackness of night opened below us as well as above,
and from some deep and tremendous abyss breathed
the winds of space.
It was as dark as a cave, for the moon was yet two
hours below the horizon. Somehow the trail turned
to the right along that tremendous cliff. We thought
we could make out its direction, the dimness of its
glimmering; but equally well, after we had looked a
moment, we could imagine it one way or another, to
right and left. I went ahead to investigate. The trail
to left proved to be the faint reflection of a clump of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: means for perpetuating our dying race.
"Some there are who claim already to have accomplished
the thing. It is generally supposed that the
etherealists have quite a few among their number who
are permanent materializations. It is even said that
such is Tario, but that cannot be, for he existed before
we had discovered the full possibilities of suggestion.
"There are others among us who insist that none of us is real.
That we could not have existed all these ages without material
food and water had we ourselves been material. Although I am
a realist, I rather incline toward this belief myself.
Thuvia, Maid of Mars |
