| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Adam Bede by George Eliot: can understand; he has showed us what God's heart is, what are his
feelings towards us.
"But let us see a little more about what Jesus came on earth for.
Another time he said, 'I came to seek and to save that which was
lost'; and another time, 'I came not to call the righteous but
sinners to repentance.'
"The LOST!...SINNERS!...Ah, dear friends, does that mean you and
me?"
Hitherto the traveller had been chained to the spot against his
will by the charm of Dinah's mellow treble tones, which had a
variety of modulation like that of a fine instrument touched with
Adam Bede |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Statesman by Plato: work.
YOUNG SOCRATES: True.
STRANGER: Are not all such sciences, no less than arithmetic and the like,
subjects of pure knowledge; and is not the difference between the two
classes, that the one sort has the power of judging only, and the other of
ruling as well?
YOUNG SOCRATES: That is evident.
STRANGER: May we not very properly say, that of all knowledge, there are
two divisions--one which rules, and the other which judges?
YOUNG SOCRATES: I should think so.
STRANGER: And when men have anything to do in common, that they should be
Statesman |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: conceivable and less mentionable nightmare - that fetid, unglimpsed
mountain of slime-spewing protoplasm whose race had conquered
the abyss and sent land pioneers to recarve and squirm through
the burrows of the hills - we could form no guess; and it cost
us a genuine pang to leave this probably crippled Old One-perhaps
a lone survivor - to the peril of recapture and a nameless fate.
Thank Heaven we did not slacken our run. The curling mist had
thickened again, and was driving ahead with increased speed; whilst
the straying penguins in our rear were squawking and screaming
and displaying signs of a panic really surprising in view of their
relatively minor confusion when we had passed them. Once more
At the Mountains of Madness |
