| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Ann Veronica by H. G. Wells: fresh Mendelian work. He loves the Mendelians because he hates
all the big names of the eighties and nineties. Then I think I
remarked that science was disgracefully under-endowed, and
confessed I'd had to take to more profitable courses. 'The fact
of it is,' I said, 'I'm the new playwright, Thomas More. Perhaps
you've heard--?' Well, you know, he had."
"Fame!"
"Isn't it? 'I've not seen your play, Mr. More,' he said, 'but
I'm told it's the most amusing thing in London at the present
time. A friend of mine, Ogilvy'--I suppose that's Ogilvy &
Ogilvy, who do so many divorces, Vee?--'was speaking very highly
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen: "What is that?" said he, as he came out into the sunshine. "I have no shadow!
So then, it has actually gone last night, and not come again. It is really
tiresome!"
This annoyed him: not so much because the shadow was gone, but because he knew
there was a story about a man without a shadow.* It was known to everybody at
home, in the cold lands; and if the learned man now came there and told his
story, they would say that he was imitating it, and that he had no need to do.
He would, therefore, not talk about it at all; and that was wisely thought.
*Peter Schlemihl, the shadowless man.
In the evening he went out again on the balcony. He had placed the light
directly behind him, for he knew that the shadow would always have its master
Fairy Tales |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tanach: Genesis 22: 19 So Abraham returned unto his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beer-sheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beer-sheba.
Genesis 22: 20 And it came to pass after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying: 'Behold, Milcah, she also hath borne children unto thy brother Nahor:
Genesis 22: 21 Uz his first-born, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram;
Genesis 22: 22 and Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel.'
Genesis 22: 23 And Bethuel begot Rebekah; these eight did Milcah bear to Nahor, Abraham's brother.
Genesis 22: 24 And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she also bore Tebah, and Gaham, and Tahash, and Maacah.
Genesis 23: 1 And the life of Sarah was a hundred and seven and twenty years; these were the years of the life of Sarah.
Genesis 23: 2 And Sarah died in Kiriatharba--the same is Hebron--in the land of Canaan; and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
Genesis 23: 3 And Abraham rose up from before his dead, and spoke unto the children of Heth, saying:
Genesis 23: 4 'I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.'
Genesis 23: 5 And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him:
The Tanach |
