| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: (in the Art of Creation and elsewhere) I am inclined
to adopt. It is that the figures of the supranatural gods arose
from a process in the human mind similar
to that which the photographer adopts when by
photographing a number of faces on the same plate, and
so superposing their images on one another, he produces a
so-called "composite" photograph or image. Thus, in the
photographic sphere, the portraits of a lot of members of
the same family superposed upon one another may produce
a composite image or ideal of that family type,
or the portraits of a number of Aztecs or of a number of
Pagan and Christian Creeds |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lady Susan by Jane Austen: and incur, what would be still more insupportable, the displeasure of Mr.
Vernon. I might perhaps harden myself in time against the injustice of
general reproach, but the loss of HIS valued esteem I am, as you well know,
ill-fitted to endure; and when to this may be added the consciousness of
having injured you with your family, how am I to support myself? With
feelings so poignant as mine, the conviction of having divided the son from
his parents would make me, even with you, the most miserable of beings. It
will surely, therefore, be advisable to delay our union--to delay it till
appearances are more promising--till affairs have taken a more favourable
turn. To assist us In such a resolution I feel that absence will be
necessary. We must not meet. Cruel as this sentence may appear, the
Lady Susan |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan by Honore de Balzac: you."
"My son will never capitulate to the younger branch," returned the
princess, "if he has to die of hunger, or I have to work with my hands
to feed him. Besides, Berthe de Cinq-Cygne has no aversion to him."
"Children don't bind themselves to their parents' principles," said
Madame d'Espard.
"Don't let us talk about it," said the princess. "If I can't coax over
the Marquise de Cinq-Cygne, I shall marry Georges to the daughter of
some iron-founderer, as that little d'Esgrignon did."
"Did you love Victurnien?" asked the marquise.
"No," replied the princess, gravely, "d'Esgrignon's simplicity was
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