| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: the ice been foreseen, and had a nameless population left en masse
to seek a less doomed abode? The precise physiographic conditions
attending the formation of the ice sheet at this point would have
to wait for later solution. It had not, very plainly, been a grinding
drive. Perhaps the pressure of accumulated snows had been responsible,
and perhaps some flood from the river, or from the bursting of
some ancient glacial dam in the great range, had helped to create
the special state now observable. Imagination could conceive almost
anything in connection with this place.
VI
It would be cumbrous
At the Mountains of Madness |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from O Pioneers! by Willa Cather: only women come to visit me, and I do not
know how to behave. Where is your trunk?"
"It's in Hanover. I can stay only a few days.
I am on my way to the coast."
They started up the path. "A few days?
After all these years!" Alexandra shook her
finger at him. "See this, you have walked into
a trap. You do not get away so easy." She put
her hand affectionately on his shoulder. "You
O Pioneers! |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Symposium by Xenophon: Jowett] "for the simple reason he can't forget each lovely thing
he once has seen." Through the "ars memoriae" of Hippias, it
becomes an "idee fixe" of the mind.
[104] Perhaps Zeuxippus. See Plat. "Prot." 318 B. Al. Zeuxis, also a
native of Heraclea. See "Mem." I. iv. 3; "Econ." x. 1.
[105] Or, "introduced him to me." Cf. "Econ." iii. 14; Plat. "Lach."
200 D.
[106] "An out-and-out {kalos te kagathos}."
[107] Who this Phliasian is, no one knows.
[108] Al. "like two hounds chevying after one another."
With such examples of your wonder-working skill before my eyes, I must
The Symposium |
