| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Vailima Letters by Robert Louis Stevenson: kill him, they fight, he is wounded, and the Master plays
DEUS EX MACHINA. I THINK just now of calling it THE TAIL OF
THE RACE; no - heavens! I never saw till this moment - but
of course nobody but myself would ever understand Mill-Race,
they would think of a quarter-mile. So - I am nameless
again. My melancholy young man is to be quite a Romeo. Yes,
I'll name the book from him: DYCE OF YTHAN - pronounce
Eethan.
Dyce of Ythan
by R. L. S.
O, Shovel - Shovel waits his turn, he and his ancestors. I
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Parmenides by Plato: for these would of course be parts of it.
Right.
But then, again, a beginning and an end are the limits of everything?
Certainly.
Then the one, having neither beginning nor end, is unlimited?
Yes, unlimited.
And therefore formless; for it cannot partake either of round or straight.
But why?
Why, because the round is that of which all the extreme points are
equidistant from the centre?
Yes.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from St. Ives by Robert Louis Stevenson: is, what next? What are we to do at Aylesbury? or, more
particularly, what are you? Thence, I go on a journey. Are you to
accompany me?'
He gave a little chuckle. 'That's all settled already, Mr. Anne,
sir,' he replied. 'Why, I've got my things here in the valise - a
half a dozen shirts and what not; I'm all ready, sir: just you lead
on: YOU'LL see.'
'The devil you have!' said I. 'You made pretty sure of your
welcome.'
'If you please, sir,' said Rowley.
He looked up at me, in the light of the lantern, with a boyish
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