| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald: idolize Von Hindenburg the same way?"
"What brings it about?"
"Time, damn it, and the historian. If we could only learn to look
on evil as evil, whether it's clothed in filth or monotony or
magnificence."
"God! Haven't we raked the universe over the coals for four
years?"
Then the night came that was to be the last. Tom and Amory, bound
in the morning for different training-camps, paced the shadowy
walks as usual and seemed still to see around them the faces of
the men they knew.
This Side of Paradise |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Alexandria and her Schools by Charles Kingsley: and that therefore the goodness of their Absolute Good, careless of the
degradation and misery around it, must be something very different from
his notions of human goodness; the Neoplatonists would have answered--
indeed they did answer--"After all, why not? Why should the Absolute
Goodness be like our human goodness?" This is Plotinus's own belief.
It is a question with him, it was still more a question with those who
came after him, whether virtues could be predicated of the Divine
nature; courage, for instance, of one who had nothing to fear; self-
restraint, of one who had nothing to desire. And thus, by setting up a
different standard of morality for the divine and for the human,
Plotinus gradually arrives at the conclusion, that virtue is not the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: fear in which all dreamland holds their abhorrent frozen plateau.
As the Shantak flew lower, the repulsiveness of the dancers became
tinged with a certain hellish familiarity; and the prisoner kept
straining his eyes and racking his memory for clues to where he
had seen such creatures before.
They leaped as though they had
hooves instead of feet, and seemed to wear a sort of wig or headpiece
with small horns. Of other clothing they had none, but most of
them were quite furry. Behind they had dwarfish tails, and when
they glanced upward he saw the excessive width of their mouths.
Then he knew what they were, and that they did not wear any wigs
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath |
