| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Lesson of the Master by Henry James: before I die the thing I most want, the thing I yearn for: a life
in which the passion - ours - is really intense. If you can be
rare don't fail of it! Think what it is - how it counts - how it
lives!"
They had moved to the door and he had closed both his hands over
his companion's. Here they paused again and our hero breathed
deep. "I want to live!"
"In what sense?"
"In the greatest."
"Well then stick to it - see it through."
"With your sympathy - your help?"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Cratylus by Plato: because the flux of the air is wind, and the poets call the winds 'air-
blasts,' (aetai); he who uses the term may mean, so to speak, air-flux
(aetorroun), in the sense of wind-flux (pneumatorroun); and because this
moving wind may be expressed by either term he employs the word air (aer =
aetes rheo). Aither (aether) I should interpret as aeitheer; this may be
correctly said, because this element is always running in a flux about the
air (aei thei peri tou aera reon). The meaning of the word ge (earth)
comes out better when in the form of gaia, for the earth may be truly
called 'mother' (gaia, genneteira), as in the language of Homer (Od.)
gegaasi means gegennesthai.
HERMOGENES: Good.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: smooth dialect, not unlike in sound to the Italian: and
therefore I returned an answer in that language, hoping at least
that the cadence might be more agreeable to his ears. Although
neither of us understood the other, yet my meaning was easily
known, for the people saw the distress I was in.
They made signs for me to come down from the rock, and go towards
the shore, which I accordingly did; and the flying island being
raised to a convenient height, the verge directly over me, a
chain was let down from the lowest gallery, with a seat fastened
to the bottom, to which I fixed myself, and was drawn up by
pulleys.
Gulliver's Travels |
