| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: The entire party looked with startled astonishment
upon him, for none of them had ever seen this bold
raider whom all the nobility and gentry of England
feared and hated.
"For lesser acts than that which thou hast just per-
formed, the King has pardoned men before," replied Her
Majesty. "But raise your visor, I would look upon the
face of so notorious a criminal who can yet be a gentle-
man and a loyal protector of his queen."
"They who have looked upon my face, other than
my friends," replied Norman of Torn quietly, "have
The Outlaw of Torn |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Oedipus Trilogy by Sophocles: A running noose entwined about her neck.
But when he saw her, with a maddened roar
He loosed the cord; and when her wretched corpse
Lay stretched on earth, what followed--O 'twas dread!
He tore the golden brooches that upheld
Her queenly robes, upraised them high and smote
Full on his eye-balls, uttering words like these:
"No more shall ye behold such sights of woe,
Deeds I have suffered and myself have wrought;
Henceforward quenched in darkness shall ye see
Those ye should ne'er have seen; now blind to those
Oedipus Trilogy |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lysis by Plato: substance.
Very good.
In such a case, is the substance which is anointed the same as the colour
or ointment?
What do you mean? he said.
This is what I mean: Suppose that I were to cover your auburn locks with
white lead, would they be really white, or would they only appear to be
white?
They would only appear to be white, he replied.
And yet whiteness would be present in them?
True.
Lysis |
