| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: Vere) "who has kept none with me."
"In what respect," said Ellieslaw, silencing, with a motion of
his hand, his impetuous kinsman--"how have I disappointed you,
Sir Frederick?"
"In the nearest and most tender point--you have trifled with me
concerning our proposed alliance, which you well knew was the
gage of our political undertaking. This carrying off and this
bringing back of Miss Vere,--the cold reception I have met with
from her, and the excuses with which you cover it, I believe to
be mere evasions, that you may yourself retain possession of the
estates which are hers by right, and make me, in the meanwhile, a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from 'Twixt Land & Sea by Joseph Conrad: He got up from his chair before I had finished speaking, but he
refused to take the key. Burns would never do it. He wouldn't
like to ask him even.
"Well, then," I said, eyeing him slightingly, "there's nothing for
it, Mr. Jacobus, but you must wait on board till I come off to
settle with you."
"That will be all right, Captain. I will go at once."
He seemed at a loss what to do with the girl's shoe he was still
holding in his fist. Finally, looking dully at me, he put it down
on the chair from which he had risen.
"And you, Captain? Won't you come along, too, just to see - "
'Twixt Land & Sea |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Soul of the Far East by Percival Lowell: innocent of gender. This early state of semi-consciousness the
Japanese never outgrew. The world continued to present itself to
their minds as a collection of things. Nor did their subsequent
Chinese education change their view. Buddhism simply infused all
things with the one universal spirit.
As to inanimate objects, the idea of supposing sex where there is
not even life is altogether too fanciful a notion for the Far
Eastern mind.
Impersonality first fashioned the nouns, and then the nouns, by
their very impersonality, helped keep impersonal the thought and
fettered fancy. All those temptings to poesy which to the Aryan
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