| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Soul of Man by Oscar Wilde: However, let us leave what is really a very sordid side of the
subject, and return to the question of popular control in the
matter of Art, by which I mean Public Opinion dictating to the
artist the form which he is to use, the mode in which he is to use
it, and the materials with which he is to work. I have pointed out
that the arts which have escaped best in England are the arts in
which the public have not been interested. They are, however,
interested in the drama, and as a certain advance has been made in
the drama within the last ten or fifteen years, it is important to
point out that this advance is entirely due to a few individual
artists refusing to accept the popular want of taste as their
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Youth by Joseph Conrad: He drank again.
"By all that's wonderful, it is the sea, I believe, the sea
itself--or is it youth alone? Who can tell? But you
here--you all had something out of life: money, love--
whatever one gets on shore--and, tell me, wasn't that the
best time, that time when we were young at sea; young
and had nothing, on the sea that gives nothing, except
hard knocks--and sometimes a chance to feel your
strength--that only--what you all regret?"
And we all nodded at him: the man of finance, the man
of accounts, the man of law, we all nodded at him over
Youth |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Rig Veda:
HYMN VIII. Agni.
1. AGNI advances with his lofty banner: the Bull is bellowing
to the
earth and heavens.
He hath attained the sky's supremest limits. the Steer hath
waxen in
the lap of waters.
2 The Bull, the youngling with the hump, hath frolicked, the
The Rig Veda |
