| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Death of the Lion by Henry James: honours to say that I begin to see deeper into Gustave Flaubert's
doleful refrain about the hatred of literature? I refer you again
to the perverse constitution of man.
"The Princess is a massive lady with the organisation of an athlete
and the confusion of tongues of a valet de place. She contrives to
commit herself extraordinarily little in a great many languages,
and is entertained and conversed with in detachments and relays,
like an institution which goes on from generation to generation or
a big building contracted for under a forfeit. She can't have a
personal taste any more than, when her husband succeeds, she can
have a personal crown, and her opinion on any matter is rusty and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Rig Veda: and Soma
in the jar is mingled with the milk.
He sendeth out his voice, and many loving friends of him the
highly
lauded hasten with their songs.
2 The many sages utter words in unison, while into Indra's
throat they
pour the Soma juice,
When, with the ten that dwell together closely joined, the
men whose
hands are skilful cleanse the lovely meath.
The Rig Veda |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Dusarians by the marks of the latter's sandals in the
thin dust that overspread the floors of these seldom-
used passage-ways.
They had come to the chamber at the entrances to the
lifts before they met with opposition. Here they found a
handful of guardsmen, and an officer, who, seeing that
they were strangers, questioned their presence in the
palace of Astok.
Once more Carthoris and Kar Komak had recourse to
their blades, and before they had won their way to one
of the lifts the noise of the conflict must have aroused
Thuvia, Maid of Mars |
