| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Essays & Lectures by Oscar Wilde: contemplation of Wordsworth and giving wings and fire to the eagle-
like flight of Shelley, and which in the sphere of philosophy,
though displaced by the materialism and positiveness of our day,
bequeathed two great schools of thought, the school of Newman to
Oxford, the school of Emerson to America. Yet is this spirit of
transcendentalism alien to the spirit of art. For the artist can
accept no sphere of life in exchange for life itself. For him
there is no escape from the bondage of the earth: there is not
even the desire of escape.
He is indeed the only true realist: symbolism, which is the
essence of the transcendental spirit, is alien to him. The
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lady Baltimore by Owen Wister: "Thank you; that's all I wanted."
"What do you mean?"
"They're new people. I could tell it from the way you stuck your nose in
the air."
"Sir!"
"Oh, if you talk about my hair, I can talk about your nose, I think. I
suspected that they were: 'new people' because they cleaned up their
garden immediately after the storm this morning. Now, I'll tell you
something else: the whole South looks down on the whole North."
She made her voice kind. "Do you mind it very much?"
I joined in her latent mirth. "It makes life not worth living! But more
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert: through the air. An arch was formed above the door before each passage
with elephants' teeth placed upright and meeting together at the
points.
At last he ascended the stone disc. All the stewards stood with arms
folded and heads bent while Abdalonim reared his pointed mitre with a
haughty air.
Hamilcar questioned the Chief of the Ships. He was an old pilot with
eyelids chafed by the wind, and white locks fell to his hips as if
dashing foam of the tempests had remained on his beard.
He replied that he had sent a fleet by Gades and Thymiamata to try to
reach Eziongaber by doubling the Southern Horn and the promontory of
Salammbo |
