| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: his mouth was actually nauseous with the flies and spiders
which he had eaten just before Mrs. Harker entered the room."
Van Helsing smiled in turn. "Good!" he said.
"Your memory is true, friend John. I should have remembered.
And yet it is this very obliquity of thought and memory
which makes mental disease such a fascinating study.
Perhaps I may gain more knowledge out of the folly of this
madman than I shall from the teaching of the most wise.
Who knows?"
I went on with my work, and before long was through that in hand.
It seemed that the time had been very short indeed, but there was
Dracula |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Hero of Our Time by M.Y. Lermontov: eyes with my hands and began to say a prayer --
I can't remember what. . . Yes, my friend,
many a time have I seen people die in hospitals
or on the field of battle, but this was something
altogether different! Still, this one thing grieves
me, I must confess: she died without even once
calling me to mind. Yet I loved her, I should
think, like a father! . . . Well, God forgive
her! . . . And, to tell the truth, what am I
that she should have remembered me when she
was dying? . . .
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Apology by Xenophon: Zeni philos kai pasin 'Olumpia domat' ekhousi
dizo e se theon manteusomai e anthropon.
all' eti kai mallon theon elpomai, o Lukoorge.}
Cf. Plut. "Lyc." 5 (Clough, i. 89).
[27] Or, "gave judgment beforehand that I far excelled."
"Still I would not have you accept this even on the faith of the god
too rashly; rather I would have you investigate, point by point, what
the god has said. I ask you, is there any one[28] else, you know of,
less enslaved than myself to the appetites[29] of the body? Can you
name another man of more independent spirit than myself, seeing that I
accept from no one either gifts or pay? Whom have you any right to
The Apology |
