| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: in later years, but which he wished to begin while still possessed
of the exceptional facilities of the university. That the tradition-bound
elders should ignore his singular results on animals, and persist
in their denial of the possibility of reanimation, was inexpressibly
disgusting and almost incomprehensible to a youth of West’s logical
temperament. Only greater maturity could help him understand the
chronic mental limitations of the "professor-doctor" type -- the
product of generations of pathetic Puritanism; kindly, conscientious,
and sometimes gentle and amiable, yet always narrow, intolerant,
custom-ridden, and lacking in perspective. Age has more charity
for these incomplete yet high-souled characters, whose worst real
Herbert West: Reanimator |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Verses 1889-1896 by Rudyard Kipling:
TOMLINSON
Now Tomlinson gave up the ghost in his house in Berkeley Square,
And a Spirit came to his bedside and gripped him by the hair --
A Spirit gripped him by the hair and carried him far away,
Verses 1889-1896 |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Charmides by Plato: respect for his noble and gentle character, and the great services which he
has rendered to Greek Literature.
Balliol College,
January, 1871.
PREFACE TO THE SECOND AND THIRD EDITIONS.
In publishing a Second Edition (1875) of the Dialogues of Plato in English,
I had to acknowledge the assistance of several friends: of the Rev. G.G.
Bradley, Master of University College, now Dean of Westminster, who sent me
some valuable remarks on the Phaedo; of Dr. Greenhill, who had again
revised a portion of the Timaeus; of Mr. R.L. Nettleship, Fellow and Tutor
of Balliol College, to whom I was indebted for an excellent criticism of
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