| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Anthem by Ayn Rand: What--even if we have to burn for it
like the Saint of the Pyre--what is the
Unspeakable Word?
PART THREE
We, Equality 7-2521, have discovered a
new power of nature. And we have discovered
it alone, and we alone are to know it.
It is said. Now let us be lashed for it,
if we must. The Council of Scholars has
said that we all know the things which exist
and therefore the things which are not
Anthem |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King Lear by William Shakespeare: Reg. I am glad to see your Highness.
Lear. Regan, I think you are; I know what reason
I have to think so. If thou shouldst not be glad,
I would divorce me from thy mother's tomb,
Sepulchring an adultress. [To Kent] O, are you free?
Some other time for that.- Beloved Regan,
Thy sister's naught. O Regan, she hath tied
Sharp-tooth'd unkindness, like a vulture, here!
[Lays his hand on his heart.]
I can scarce speak to thee. Thou'lt not believe
With how deprav'd a quality- O Regan!
King Lear |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Symposium by Plato: of all animals and in productions of the earth, and I may say in all that
is; such is the conclusion which I seem to have gathered from my own art of
medicine, whence I learn how great and wonderful and universal is the deity
of love, whose empire extends over all things, divine as well as human.
And from medicine I will begin that I may do honour to my art. There are
in the human body these two kinds of love, which are confessedly different
and unlike, and being unlike, they have loves and desires which are unlike;
and the desire of the healthy is one, and the desire of the diseased is
another; and as Pausanias was just now saying that to indulge good men is
honourable, and bad men dishonourable:--so too in the body the good and
healthy elements are to be indulged, and the bad elements and the elements
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