| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche: green flash shot from his eye at Zarathustra. But immediately after he
changed, and said sadly:
"O Zarathustra, I am weary of it, I am disgusted with mine arts, I am not
GREAT, why do I dissemble! But thou knowest it well--I sought for
greatness!
A great man I wanted to appear, and persuaded many; but the lie hath been
beyond my power. On it do I collapse.
O Zarathustra, everything is a lie in me; but that I collapse--this my
collapsing is GENUINE!"--
"It honoureth thee," said Zarathustra gloomily, looking down with sidelong
glance, "it honoureth thee that thou soughtest for greatness, but it
Thus Spake Zarathustra |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Second Inaugural Address by Abraham Lincoln: could not be answered--that of neither has been answered fully.
The Almighty has his own purposes. "Woe unto the world because
of offenses! for it must needs be that offenses come; but woe
to that man by whom the offense cometh." If we shall suppose
that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the
providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued
through his appointed time, he now wills to remove, and that he
gives to both North and South this terrible war, as the woe due
to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any
departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a
living God always ascribe to him? Fondly do we hope--fervently
Second Inaugural Address |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: the newest in battleships and the trained artisans who build
them, that they may copy what they cannot create.
"We are a non-productive race, priding ourselves upon
our non-productiveness. It is criminal for a First Born to
labour or invent. That is the work of the lower orders, who
live merely that the First Born may enjoy long lives of luxury
and idleness. With us fighting is all that counts; were it
not for that there would be more of the First Born than all
the creatures of Barsoom could support, for in so far as I
know none of us ever dies a natural death. Our females
would live for ever but for the fact that we tire of them
The Gods of Mars |
