| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: magistrates seem to him to interfere in public affairs of chance,
but by a chance which recurs every day.
When the Parliament of Paris remonstrated, or refused to
enregister an edict, or when it summoned a functionary accused of
malversation to its bar, its political influence as a judicial
body was clearly visible; but nothing of the kind is to be seen
in the United States. The Americans have retained all the
ordinary characteristics of judicial authority, and have
carefully restricted its action to the ordinary circle of its
functions.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot: used especially the two volumes _Adonis, Attis, Osiris_. Anyone who is
acquainted with these works will immediately recognize in the poem
certain references to vegetation ceremonies.
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I. THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD
Line 20. Cf. Ezekiel 2:7.
23. Cf. Ecclesiastes 12:5.
31. _V. Tristan und Isolde_, i, verses 5-8.
42. Id. iii, verse 24.
46. I am not familiar with the exact constitution of the Tarot pack
of cards, from which I have obviously departed to suit my own convenience.
The Waste Land |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte: delay could be admitted; Miss Temple embraced us both, saying, as
she drew us to her heart -
"God bless you, my children!"
Helen she held a little longer than me: she let her go more
reluctantly; it was Helen her eye followed to the door; it was for
her she a second time breathed a sad sigh; for her she wiped a tear
from her cheek.
On reaching the bedroom, we heard the voice of Miss Scatcherd: she
was examining drawers; she had just pulled out Helen Burns's, and
when we entered Helen was greeted with a sharp reprimand, and told
that to-morrow she should have half-a-dozen of untidily folded
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