| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay: first glimpse of Muspel.
There was nothing.
He was standing upon the top of a tower, measuring not above fifteen
feet each way. Darkness was all around him. He sat down on the
stone parapet, with a sinking heart; a heavy foreboding possessed
him.
Suddenly, without seeing or hearing anything, he had the distinct
impression that the darkness around him, on all four sides, was
grinning.... As soon as that happened, he understood that he was
wholly surrounded by Crystalman's world, and that Muspel consisted of
himself and the stone tower on which he was sitting..
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Essays of Francis Bacon by Francis Bacon: no likely or fit head, whereunto discontented per-
sons may resort, and under whom they may join,
is a known, but an excellent point of caution. I
understand a fit head, to be one that hath great-
ness and reputation; that hath confidence with
the discontented party, and upon whom they turn
their eyes; and that is thought discontented, in his
own particular: which kind of persons, are either
to be won, and reconciled to the state, and that in
a fast and true manner; or to be fronted with some
other, of the same party, that may oppose them,
Essays of Francis Bacon |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Life of the Spider by J. Henri Fabre: that of the Banded Epeira. As regards shape, this stocking-foot
cannot be mentioned in the same breath with the Spider's elegant
and faultlessly-rounded balloon. The fabric of mixed cotton and
tow is a rustic frieze beside the spinstress' satin; the
suspension-straps are clumsy cables compared with her delicate silk
fastenings. Where shall we find in the Penduline's mattress aught
to vie with the Epeira's eiderdown, that teazled russet gossamer?
The Spider is superior to the bird in every way, in so far as
concerns her work.
But, on her side, the Penduline is a more devoted mother. For
weeks on end, squatting at the bottom of her purse, she presses to
The Life of the Spider |
