| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: corruption. No sooner was this great force of the cosmic
life diverted from its true uses of Generation and
Regeneration[1] and appropriated by the individual to his own
private pleasure--no sooner was its religious character as a
tribal service[2], (often rendered within the Temple precincts)
lost sight of or degraded into a commercial transaction--than
every kind of evil fell upon mankind. Corruptio optimi
pessima. It must be remembered too that simultaneous
with this sexual disruption occurred the disruption of
other human relations; and we cease to be surprised that
disease and selfish passions, greed, jealousy, slander, cruelty,
Pagan and Christian Creeds |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens: more they would be thought to possess it in its boldest shape; and
this is an unconscious compliment to Truth on the part of these
philosophers, which will turn the laugh against them to the Day of
Judgment.
Mr Chester, having extolled his favourite author, as above recited,
took up the book again in the excess of his admiration and was
composing himself for a further perusal of its sublime morality,
when he was disturbed by a noise at the outer door; occasioned as
it seemed by the endeavours of his servant to obstruct the entrance
of some unwelcome visitor.
'A late hour for an importunate creditor,' he said, raising his
Barnaby Rudge |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad: disinclined to look under the surface of things. "Of course, what
is she to do to keep up? If I were like Mrs Neale I expect I
wouldn't act any different."
In the afternoon of the same day, as Mr Verloc, coming with a start
out of the last of a long series of dozes before the parlour fire,
declared his intention of going out for a walk, Winnie said from
the shop:
"I wish you would take that boy out with you, Adolf."
For the third time that day Mr Verloc was surprised. He stared
stupidly at his wife. She continued in her steady manner. The
boy, whenever he was not doing anything, moped in the house. It
The Secret Agent |
