| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: strength. But, considering the frame of our bodies, and
especially of mine, he thought no creature of equal bulk was so
ill-contrived for employing that reason in the common offices of
life;" whereupon he desired to know whether those among whom I
lived resembled me, or the YAHOOS of his country?" I assured
him, "that I was as well shaped as most of my age; but the
younger, and the females, were much more soft and tender, and the
skins of the latter generally as white as milk." He said, "I
differed indeed from other YAHOOS, being much more cleanly, and
not altogether so deformed; but, in point of real advantage, he
thought I differed for the worse: that my nails were of no use
Gulliver's Travels |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring by George Bernard Shaw: transporting himself in a single breath, by the Tarnhelm's magic,
back to the hall of the Gibichungs, leaving the real Gunther to
bring Brynhild down the river after him. One controversialist
actually pleaded for the expedition occupying two nights, on the
second of which the alleged outrage might have taken place. But
the time is accounted for to the last minute: it all takes place
during the single night watch of Hagen. There is no possible way
out of the plain fact that Brynhild's accusation is to her own
knowledge false; and the impossible ways just cited are only
interesting as examples of the fanatical worship which Wagner and
his creations have been able to inspire in minds of exceptional
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Don Quixote by Miquel de Cervantes: cut off his head, and establish the princess peacefully in her
realm, and forthwith I shall return to behold the light that
lightens my senses, to whom I shall make such excuses that she will be
led to approve of my delay, for she will see that it entirely tends to
increase her glory and fame; for all that I have won, am winning, or
shall win by arms in this life, comes to me of the favour she
extends to me, and because I am hers."
"Ah! what a sad state your worship's brains are in!" said Sancho.
"Tell me, senor, do you mean to travel all that way for nothing, and
to let slip and lose so rich and great a match as this where they give
as a portion a kingdom that in sober truth I have heard say is more
Don Quixote |
