| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed by Edna Ferber: She looked keenly at the little figure in the bed. Then
she turned to us.
"You must go now," she said. "You were just to see
him for a minute or two, you know."
Blackie summoned the wan ghost of a smile to his
lips. "Guess you guys ain't got th' stimulatin' effect
that a bunch of live wires ought to have. Say, Norberg,
tell that fathead, Callahan, if he don't keep the third
drawer t' the right in my desk locked, th' office kids'll
swipe all the roller rink passes surest thing you know."
"I'll--tell him, Black," stammered Norberg, and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lysis by Plato: hesitated and had not the courage to come alone; but first of all, his
friend Menexenus, leaving his play, entered the Palaestra from the court,
and when he saw Ctesippus and myself, was going to take a seat by us; and
then Lysis, seeing him, followed, and sat down by his side; and the other
boys joined. I should observe that Hippothales, when he saw the crowd, got
behind them, where he thought that he would be out of sight of Lysis, lest
he should anger him; and there he stood and listened.
I turned to Menexenus, and said: Son of Demophon, which of you two youths
is the elder?
That is a matter of dispute between us, he said.
And which is the nobler? Is that also a matter of dispute?
Lysis |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot: in importance to the Sermon on the Mount) from which these words are taken,
will be found translated in the late Henry Clarke Warren's _Buddhism
in Translation_ (Harvard Oriental Series). Mr. Warren was one
of the great pioneers of Buddhist studies in the Occident.
309. From St. Augustine's CONFESSIONS again. The col-location
of these two representatives of eastern and western asceticism,
as the culmination of this part of the poem, is not an accident.
V. WHAT THE THUNDER SAID
In the first part of Part V three themes are employed:
the journey to Emmaus, the approach to the Chapel Perilous
(see Miss Weston's book), and the present decay of eastern Europe.
The Waste Land |
