| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dreams & Dust by Don Marquis: An air of something more than man?--
A hint of grace immortal,
Born of his greatly daring to assist the gods
In conquering these shaggy wastes,
These desert worlds,
And planting life and order in these stars?--
So Woman at her best:
Her eyes are bright with visions and with dreams
That triumph over time;
Her plumed thought, wing for wing, is mate with
his.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche: therefore, only a synthesis which has been MADE by thinking
itself. KANT really wished to prove that, starting from the
subject, the subject could not be proved--nor the object either:
the possibility of an APPARENT EXISTENCE of the subject, and
therefore of "the soul," may not always have been strange to
him,--the thought which once had an immense power on earth as the
Vedanta philosophy.
55. There is a great ladder of religious cruelty, with many
rounds; but three of these are the most important. Once on a time
men sacrificed human beings to their God, and perhaps just those
they loved the best--to this category belong the firstling
Beyond Good and Evil |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Barney's cigar, forgotten, had long since died out. Not
even its former fitful glow proclaimed his presence upon the
porch, whose black shadows completely enveloped him. Be-
fore him stretched a wide acreage of lawn, tree dotted at
the side of the house. Bushes hid the stone wall that
marked the boundary of the Custer grounds and extended
here and there out upon the sward among the trees. The
night was moonless but clear. A faint light pervaded the
scene.
Barney sat staring straight ahead, but his gaze did not
stop upon the familiar objects of the foreground. Instead it
The Mad King |
