| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: energy to the mixing of a new solution; the weighing and measuring
supervised by West with an almost fanatical care.
The awful
event was very sudden, and wholly unexpected. I was pouring something
from one test-tube to another, and West was busy over the alcohol
blast-lamp which had to answer for a Bunsen burner in this gasless
edifice, when from the pitch-black room we had left there burst
the most appalling and daemoniac succession of cries that either
of us had ever heard. Not more unutterable could have been the
chaos of hellish sound if the pit itself had opened to release
the agony of the damned, for in one inconceivable cacophony was
Herbert West: Reanimator |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Amy Foster by Joseph Conrad: some German fellow has said, that without phos-
phorus there is no thought, it is still more true that
there is no kindness of heart without a certain
amount of imagination. She had some. She had
even more than is necessary to understand suffer-
ing and to be moved by pity. She fell in love un-
der circumstances that leave no room for doubt in
the matter; for you need imagination to form a
notion of beauty at all, and still more to discover
your ideal in an unfamiliar shape.
"How this aptitude came to her, what it did
Amy Foster |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Symposium by Xenophon: having a snub nose and prominent eyes, should I have any more
notion of you than myself and others who resemble me?" Cf. also
Aristot. "Pol." v. 9, 7: "A nose which varies from the ideal of
straightness to a hook or snub may still be a good shape and
agreeable to the eye; but if the excess be very great, all
symmetry is lost, and the nose at last ceases to be a nose at all
on account of some excess in one direction or defect in the other;
and this is true of every other part of the human body. The same
law of proportion holds in states."--Jowett.
Soc. For this good reason, that a snub nose does not discharge the
office of a barrier;[8] it allows the orbs of sight free range of
The Symposium |
